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Tableau vivant


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to tableaux vivants
2Mimicing art within Pictorialism
3Mrs Severn: Tableaux vivants (1854)
4Charles Dickens and tableau vivant
Narratives
5Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian
Photographers
6Henry Peach Robinson: Little Red Riding Hood
7C. Eckenrath: Hansel & Gretel
8Victor Albert Prout (attributed): Tableau vivant at the Braemare Gathering (August 1863)
9Lejaren à Hiller: Surgery through the Ages
10Josef Jindrich Sechtl and Ignác Sechtl: Living statues
11Carlos Ducoin: Tableau vivant (ca. 1900-1914)

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