The film still, or the still photo or promotional image of a film, has had an obvious influence on contemporary art, as it has revitalized the tradition of Tableaux Vivants at the same time that he has subverted it, because it is in the film still where the Tableaux Vivants They sought to dignify photography to bring it closer to theatrical scenography and painting, to petrify the moment.

Contemporary photography, approaching film still, looks in the still image for a kind of narration, or a sensation, that moves us to imagine what has happened before or what will happen next, and that provides the viewer’s mind with “images” within the image, which make these photographs something very far from the painting and close, instead, to the snapshot.