Editorial Collage vs Street Photography
エディトリアル・コラージュ / ストリート写真
Editorial Collage comes from Publishing and Editing and Street Photography from Photographic Genres. One is technique and the other style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Editorial Collage
Layers fragments from different times and contexts, showing the editor's point of view before any explanation.
Street Photography
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Catches accident, gesture and the city's relations on the fly, in streets and public space.
| Editorial Collage | Street Photography | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | contemporary | late-1800s– |
| Family | Publishing and Editing | Photographic Genres |
| Kind | Technique | Style |
| Cues | Cut-out photographs / Mixed scales / Collision with white space / Annotations | Public space / The decisive moment / Chance arrangement / Everyday figures |
| Best used for | Implying an article's argument in one image · Giving found material a new reading | Recording the daily life of a city over time without staging it · Editing a series about a place out of chance arrangements |
| Type | A disciplined text face with large pull quotes | Use the signs already in the street as elements, adding none later |
| Composition | Choose the leading fragment; layer the rest before and behind | Go wide and close, keeping two separate events in one frame |
| Material | Photos, scraps, hand-drawn lines; leave the cut edges visible | Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera |
| Caution | Don't just add material. Be able to say what every fragment means. | Hunting for unusual looking people turns the work into spectacle and leaves the photographer's gaze rather than the city's relations. Weigh the ethics, the place and your distance from the subject. |