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註釋This book's shore introductory essay summarizes the history of staged photography highlighting key debates that center on the contradiction between factuality and the medium's capacity for picturing imaginary subjects. Included are full color phtographs illustrating works that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists. The selections range from portraits of people in costumes to elaborately constructed scenes, to images that tell stories in arrested narratives. Others take on a serious sbujects like religion or literature, som are are playful, iconoclastic, and experimental. The selection includes works that originated from diverse aesthetic and conceptual points of view and that were madue using a variety of techniques, from early salted paper prints to digital imaging technology.--Publisher.