43 GIFs That Capture The Beauty Of Cinemagraph GIFs

Published May 6, 2013

Updated February 1, 2024

Soak in the beauty of cinemagraph GIFs, where the motion and the motionless collide into these elegant GIFs.

Developed in 2011 by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, cinemagraphs are GIF images that combine still photography and video to produce a stunning effect.

Typically, the entire GIF is motionless except for one or two elements, providing a brilliant juxtaposition between the motion and the motionless. For your viewing pleasure, we’ve collected 43 beautiful cinemagraph GIFs:

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