# Dada × Photogram — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=dada+photogram
# Dada carries the structure. Photogram appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Dada (Style, 1916–1920s) and its accent from Photogram (Technique, 1830s– / avant-garde revival). Structural cues: Rotated type; Fragments of sound; Collisions of scale; Unbalanced margins. Accent cues, used sparingly: Cameraless; Object contours; Reversed values; Contact and distance. Composition: Keep one reading path; rotate and sever the rest. Type and lettering: Collide weights, directions and cases in one plane. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photo paper, lamp height, exposure time, distance controlling edge hardness. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #efe6d0, #d7362f, #161513 with a single accent drawn from #f0eee5, #73777a, #111315. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Roughly 86 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Dada: Not decorative messiness. Decide which authority or custom you are objecting to.
# - Photogram: This is not black and white abstraction in general. Merely arranging unusual objects records only shadows, while transparency and distance from the sensitized surface are what make the image.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/dada/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/photogram/design.md