In a series of elaborately staged tableaux, it depicts Cleopatra (Gardner) and her love affairs, first with handsome fisherman-slave Pharon, then with Marc Antony.

In a number of images here, he stages elaborate and humorous tableaux to point out contradictory attitudes toward the history and effects of nuclear weaponry.

Nineteenth-century photographers staged tableaux and patched together composite photographs for artistic purposes, a style that pretty much went out of favor in America when straight photography, documentary and 35-millimeter candid photographs moved to the forefront in the 1930's and after.

Whereas Mapplethorpe went for a combination of shock and slickness, however, Mr. Leatherdale's recent work displays an interest in carefully staged tableaux with a symbolic content.

All of Venice did come to partake of our never ending banquet, and to delight in the singing and the dancing, whilst the boys performed in numerous and grandly staged tableaux.

Typically Mr. Witkin presents such unnerving subjects as corpses, body parts or people with extreme physical deformities in daintily staged tableaux that evoke 19th-century studio photographs.

In The New Yorker the critic Pauline Kael wrote that - " Watching Thérèse is like looking at a book of photographs of respectfully staged tableaux and not being allowed to flip the pages at your own speed.

Ms. Clarke draws from the peculiar visual essay of Tiepolo and the French 19th-century illustrator Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, known as Grandville, to fashion these meticulously staged tableaux.

Hiller was known for dramatically staged tableaux.

Or staged tableaux?