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The theater photography is a genre of photography. Their motives are actor on theater stages and backdrops or (rarely ) props or stage sets. Directions of theater photography are drama, opera, ballet, puppet theater, cabaret, variety and artistic portraits.
The theater photography is used to document and advertising of a theater. To document belongs detention of artistic expression, the presentation, the presentation of the topic and the stage design. Recording theater scenes and actors are used in showcases, theater posters, programs and advertisements. The most extensive use find theater photos in the media, mainly for illustration of criticism and review, often to the notice of new productions.
Professional theater photographers are freelancers usually and are posted for each production, with contracts for the entire theater season are quite common. Some large theaters have their own advertising department, which also firmly committed photographers work.
Practice
The use of digital SLR cameras and light-intensive lenses with different focal lengths, depending on the stage size, allow the theater photographer to respond to different lighting moods on stage. Many theaters also photographers shooting in RAW format in order to compensate for color casts and different color temperatures in a digital workflow can. In addition, the digital photography allows for a rapid and timely publication of the photos in the media.
The photographs are mainly produced only in samples so that performance is not compromised. Often there before the premiere extra mounted " photo samples " on which press photographers are invited. Photo samples are the standard, for example, in all theaters and opera houses in Berlin and Hamburg.
Stage photographers and photographers
- Rosemarie Clausen (1907-1990)
- Mara Eggert (* 1938)
- Eva Kemlein (1909-2004)
- Elli Marcus (1899-1977)
- Stefan Moses ( b. 1928 )
- Abishag Tüllmann (1935-1996)
- Fritz Peyer (1919-2001)
- Liselotte Strelow (1908-1981)
- Ruth Wilhelmi (1904-1977)
- Andreas Birkigt ( b. 1949 )