Hiroshi Sugimoto, in this project, photographs exhibits at the American Museum of Natural history. He invites us to believe that this is a real live polar bear. Only after close inspection does it become clear that this is all staged.
In this project, David Levinthal uses toy soldiers to re-create war scenes. By recreating them in the way he does, with such a shallow depth of field, it is only clear upon close examination that these are set ups.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander predated photoshop. Instead, he created true fiction by cutting up his negatives!
Annie Leibovitz is an amazing portrait photographer. She stages her subjects very intentionally. Here, she is playing with notions of “truth” by painting her human subject to mimic the wall behind him
Faucon re-creates childhood scenes with actors.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia actually paid his subjects, real live male prostitutes, to pose for his photos.
Crewdson stages his photographs, giving them a theatrical quality.
Arthur Tress re-creates nightmares through his staged photographs.
Laurie Simmons plays with our sense of scale as she re-creates living room scenes using miniature furniture.
Demand re-creates images he sees in the media using cardboard and paper. In doing so, he plays with our sense of scale and the notion of truth in photography.
