History Main / LivingPhoto

* ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable:'' One of the villains, Yoshihiro Kira, once used his Stand "Atom Heart Father" so that he can stay alive, after his bodily death, in a photo. He, through said photo, frequently assists his son, Yoshikage, in his SerialKiller antics; he can also entrap people inside his photo.

* ''Film/{{Phantasm}}''. While Mike is looking at a photo of the Tall Man dressed as a coachman atop a carriage, the photo comes to life like a TV show or film.

* VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout: [[PosthumousCharacter Alfred’s]] shrine has a portrait of him, which eyes are moving and can even respond for talking. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Knowing what person we control]] it can be understandable.

A trope found usually in visual media, it happens when a character looks at an old photograph or painting, and witnesses the people in the image moving and talking in front of them, with the photographed figures either talking back to them, or simply replaying a memory.

Compare PortalPicture, when the characters can enter into another world via the picture in question, and TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack and TheTelevisionTalksBack, which are self-explanatory. Under no circumstance should this get confused with videos nor .gif images.

* In ''Film/{{Amelie}}'', Nino keeps a photo booth photograph by his bed side which suddenly starts talking to him, reminding him that there is a girl in love with him.

* ''Film/Hairspray2007'': [[EnforcedTrope In a case of]] AdaptationDeviation, during "Without Love", Link sings to Tracy's photo, and they duet. In the [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} stage version]], both characters sung together during this number, but since the film required the characters to be in separate locations, they used this trope to keep the duet without having them in the same place.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Photographs developed in a special potion are able to move, and are common in the Wizarding World. However, they cannot speak or interact. Painted portraits, on the other hand, have more interactivity and retain the personality of their subjects, though the level of depth captured depends on the power and impression of the painter. The portraits of deceased Hogwarts headmasters are especially lifelike, according to WordOfGod, because the painting's subjects will impart knowledge to their painted selves while they are still alive. Acting headmasters and others will take advantage of this to seek advice from leaders past.
* ''Literature/{{It}}'': ''It'' uses it's powers to abuse this effect as a sort of psychological terrorism. ''It'' causes Georgie's picture to wink at Bill and in another scene ''It'' brings an old photo in Mike Hanlon's scrapbook to come to life to threaten The Loser's Club.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': In "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS4E6ShallWeDance Shall We Dance?]]", Laura shows Brittas some photos of the time he went over to build an arbor for her. As Brittas and Laura look at the photos, one of them begins moving, seguing into a {{Flashback}} of the time in question.
* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIITimeslides Timeslides]]" Kryten discovers that some three million-year old photo developer has "evolved" so that photos developed with it become windows into the past, when put in a projector one can even use them for limited TimeTravel. One of the first indicators that the photographs have mutated is that they come to life, depicting scenes in action like Kryten having a birthday.

* VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout: [[PosthumousCharacter Alfred’s]] shrine has portrait of him, which eyes are moving and can even response for talking. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Knowing what person we control]] it can be understandable.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': When Coraline moves from Michigan to the Pink Palace Apartments, she keeps a photo of two of her friends from Michigan in her room. When she enters the "Other World", she finds that her "Other Bedroom" has a copy of that photo and that her friends in it can talk to her.

* ''Film/{{TheMuppets2011}}'': During the song "Pictures in My Head." As Kermit reminisces about the glory days of The Muppets, the pictures of his friends on the walls of his mansion spring to life in his imagination.

* {{ZigZagged|Trope}} In ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'', [[EvilSorcerer Maxim Horvath]] hunts Dave Stutler by bringing a calendar with photos of grey wolves on it to life, turning them into real SavageWolves and sending them after him. Luckily, [[MentorArchetype Balthazar Blake]] saves Dave by turning the wolves into puppies just as they jump on him- and then he turns them ''back'' into photos.

%% (Administrivia/PartialContextExample ''and'' Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples) * There is a dream sequence in ''VideoGame/ChainsOfSatinav'' where the hero communicates with the DreamWeaver via a painting of hers. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/N7H44_ifma4 here]].

* There is a dream sequence in ''VideoGame/ChainsOfSatinav'' where the hero communicates with the DreamWeaver via a painting of hers. %% (Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples) Watch it [[https://youtu.be/N7H44_ifma4 here]].

** Happens twice in "Employee of the Month". The first time, [=SpongeBob=] believes that Squidward will be the next employee of the month and imagines Squidward occupying the next blank picture frame and laughing at him. The second time, he looks at the pictures of himself on the wall and they (now wearing Army helmets) give him an pep talk.

%% (Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples) * There is a dream sequence in ''VideoGame/ChainsOfSatinav'' where the hero communicates with the DreamWeaver via a painting of hers. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/N7H44_ifma4 here]].

Note that non-visual media such as {{Literature}} and Music (not Music Videos) may still contain examples of the trope, but it must describe the whole scenario. Also, while the trope is found out usually in photos, it can also apply to other types of portraits such as posters or illustrations.