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Abstract

                   A Creative Research on Tableau Staged Narrative Photography is a practice-based research which knowledge is gained from the practice itself and its outcomes. Its aim is to study how to create a narrative using “Tableau Staged Photography”, an approach which focuses on artistic process of creating photographic art and storytelling. The study  is related to theoretical and practical knowledge in the artistic processes of creating a visual form by exploring how visual art, film,performing art, and photography share their ideas in making visual language. The study aims to contribute to new knowledge on storytelling in Photographic Art and Visual Communication Arts.
                  The study is divided into two parts. The firstpart is a research on how Tableau Staged Photography is created through the study of its history and renowned works by contemporary artists who create narrative scenes in a tableau style captured as photographs. The second part is employing thinking frameworks which are developed through the knowledge gained from the firstpart of the research to create a Tableau Staged Photography project called THE SHOW and evaluating of the outcomes.
                  Results of the study show that Tableau Staged Photography creates similar storytelling as a theater. A narrative is created through photographs that capture staged or artificiallyconstructed scenes made only for photography. Its tone is often surreal, enigmatic, and emotionally detached, intended to be poetic and subjective. The approach to storytelling in this form is divergent in both scale and the extent to which narrative elements are assembled, created, or directed. The narration which emphasizes on constructed tableaux are often produced for the wall, similar to how finearts tells a story through paintings. Images are usually printed in a very large size for display in order to position viewers as voyeurs. They also offer spectators a confrontational experience with the expansive scene in an impressive amount of details that hints at a narrative but ensuring that the story remains oblique or ambiguous.