# FSA Documentary × Photo Essay — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=fsa-documentary+photo-essay
# FSA Documentary carries the structure. Photo Essay 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 FSA Documentary (Style, 1935–1944) and its accent from Photo Essay (Layout, 1936–1972). Structural cues: Portraits preserving dignity; Living conditions described; The archive as state project; Field information in captions. Accent cues, used sparingly: Sequenced narrative arcs; Size contrast across spreads; The full-page key image; Captions that narrate. Composition: Always pair a portrait with the setting that person lives in. Type and lettering: Log place, date and situation in a fixed form, never opinion. Let one material quality come from the second style: Full-page frames open and close, denser pages between. Mood: Trust, Intimacy, Calm, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - FSA Documentary: Emphasizing the look of hardship becomes the quick route to sympathy, and what was meant as a record turns the people in it into a spectacle.
# - Photo Essay: Good pictures get lined up without a sequence being designed, every spread arrives at the same pitch, and the reader loses any reason to turn the page.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/fsa-documentary/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/photo-essay/design.md