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Inszenierungen

English translation: composed scenes

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German term or phrase:Inszenierungen
English translation:composed scenes
Entered by: Victor Dewsbery

15:20 May 1, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
German term or phrase: Inszenierungen
Context:
"In den 1980er Jahren fiel der Fotograf durch Porträtserien auf, die mit **Inszenierungen** und Verfremdungen spielten. Die Abgebildeten konnten dabei verschiedene Facetten der eigenen Person zeigen, sie boten aber zugleich auch eine Art Projektionsfläche für die Fantasien des Fotografen. Mit seinen Porträts galt Jaeggi als Vertreter einer neuen Fotografen-Generation, die sich von der herkömmlichen dokumentarischen Sehweise verabschiedet hatte."
Leander1
Switzerland
Local time: 11:44
composed scenes
Explanation:
The photographer used composed scenes and distortions of reality to create special effects.
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Victor Dewsbery
Germany
Local time: 11:44
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2composed scenes
Victor Dewsbery
3 +1staging
Lori Dendy-Molz
3 +1staged scenes
Laurel Porter (X)
4staged (dep. on pics: symbolic) settings; tableaux
Stephen Reader
3perfomance
Rita Bilancio


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
staging


Explanation:
could work here

Lori Dendy-Molz
Germany
Local time: 11:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jeanette Phillips: yes, I wonder if "pastiche" is suitable as well
16 mins
  -> possibly - too bad we can't view examples
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
staged scenes


Explanation:
A possibility... Not sure how that would pair with "alienation" or however you'll translate "Verfremdungen".

Laurel Porter (X)
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henry Schroeder: yeah, staged scenes and defamiliarization - the latter almost certainly from literary criticism
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Henry!
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
composed scenes


Explanation:
The photographer used composed scenes and distortions of reality to create special effects.

Victor Dewsbery
Germany
Local time: 11:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  archtrans: very nice, although I think in the second half, alienation might apply to portraits and could be fit in
20 mins
agree  Laurel Porter (X): I like composed scenes better than mine!
1 hr
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
perfomance


Explanation:
my idea

Rita Bilancio
Local time: 11:44
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
staged (dep. on pics: symbolic) settings; tableaux


Explanation:
Inszenieren & its forms - don't Kunstwissenschaftler love it. My offering not much different from "staged scenes", which I'd also second; but just instinctively, maybe highlights the contrivance aspect a touch more. Depending on the pics, "symbolic settings" may also do; or for "symbolic", "referential", etc. Again depending on visual content, you might also consider "tableaus"/"tableaux" (from ye olde melodramatic composed 'stills'). Hope this doesn't verschlimmbessern it all.

Stephen Reader
Local time: 11:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 115
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