Theatre and Photography
Theatre and Photography

Summary/Abstract: There is a long tradition in the Romanian theatre school for the study of photography.Maybe it is rather hard for us to realise that quite from the beginning of photography a bound ofinterdependence has been formed between the two mediums of artistic expression. Pictorialism wasthe first defining movement in the demarche of integrating and accepting photography among thefine arts. Pictorialists borrowed techniques and subjects innate to painting, and thanks to the ratherqiuck time of rendering compared to painting, the artist endeavours in takeing more daringcompositions and subjects. Here we notice a rather heavy influence from the side of the director andthe actor in conceiving a scene for a photograph. We could notice a reciprocity in the shared influenceon one side we may notice a dramatization of some scenes and on the other naturality andunselfconscious inherent to photography which we will later observe in cinematography. The base ofthe Theatre – photography relationship resides in the limitation of having to tell a story in one frame.

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