Cinematographic photos: snapshots, similar to moments from the movies (30 new photos)

Snapshots, similar to moments from cinema, on stop-frames with an interrupted narrative, with hints of varying degrees of evidence on what is happening, where the development of the plot depends only on the imagination and interpretation of the viewer. Such photos are extremely close to the expensive to our heart cinema.

Since in 1895, Lumiere brothers showed their first film on Kapuchin Boulevard in Paris, cinema occupies a special place in public imagination. Photographers quickly absorbed his trends, and many major movements in the cinema - from German expressionism to the French new wave - had a long impact on the practice of a still image. In photographic terminology, this is called cinematic style.

Distinctive feature of the movie - action. On the screen constantly something happens, even when it seems that nothing is moving. So the cinematic photographs are created by various visual techniques designed for extremely effective transmission of action and volume. If you disassemble the frame on the notes, it can be noted that the illusion of reality enhances the illusion of depth, lined with composite admission - multifacetedness, leading lines, promising distortions, proportions (width) frame. And to achieve a strong emotional effect, mysticism and drama can be minimal tools - affordable lighting and shadows.

In our selection of photographers, working in different directions, but certainly exploring the ideas of the cinematic structure or direct allys to cinema. They tighten the viewer's look into their impossible reality, come to life in imagination and move to only you depend on the final.