Vanessa Beecroft ("Economy of Desire," P. 72) takes staged portraits of groups of women.
Nadav Kander won first place for staged portraits with a series on London stage actors for The New York Times Magazine.
In the 1970s, Sidibé embraced studio photography, making formal, staged portraits that possessed an energy not usually seen in portraiture.
The almost-three-hour vividly staged portraits of real-life events in Abramovic's life are collaged together in an intensely original and imaginative installation.
Her staged portraits of people in their homes have the kind of voyeuristic appeal that you see in the photography of Nan Goldin and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop's latest work, Project Diaspora, is a series of elaborately staged portraits of himself in various historical guises.
ARNOLD NEWMAN Newman (1918-2006) is best known for his cleverly staged portraits of artists, writers, statesmen, and other celebrated sitters, several autographed examples of which are included here.
(It's instructive to contrast Lawson's staged portraits of low-income black folk with the young Californian photographer Buck Ellison's staged portraits of wealthy white folk, replete with the discreet symbols of wealth: wood panelling, cashmere sweaters, silk shirts, linen pants, polished chrome kitchen-cabinet handles, crystal tumblers).
Sometimes the long tradition of street photography -- of capturing strangers as they move past the lens -- seems slightly lost in the shuffle of staged portraits, jaw-dropping panoramas of natural or urban vistas, or the latest permutations of postmodern setup.
She shows me new black-and-white images from a trip to Surinam that merge landscape, observation and staged portraits of her latest muse, a young man called Etan.
