He has explored that paradox with elaborate, meticulously staged photographs that are striking for their incongruous images.

Schwarzkogler, who sometimes feigned self-mutilation in performance and also staged photographs, continues to be inaccurately described as having died from progressive amputations.

There have been illustrative photographs made since the medium's invention, for example in the earliest staged photographs, such as Hippolyte Bayard's 'Self Portrait as a Drowned Man' (1840).

And she was the only woman they ever saw -and then only in carefully distributed, carefully staged photographs.

Beginning in the 1970's, Conceptual and "story" artists like Bill Beckley, Robert Cumming, Jean le Gac, Ger Van Elk and William Wegman staged photographs that disputed the medium's claims to documentary objectivity.

He created an official website, a Facebook page, posters, and staged photographs that allegedly showed the movie being made.

In recent years Mr. Martinez has exhibited large, staged photographs of himself with grotesque wounds created with the help of movie make-up artists.

Halaban's ongoing series Out My Window consists of elaborately staged photographs of people in their homes, shot from a distance.

In fact, they are artful simulations, artificially aged, elaborately staged photographs of events that never happened.