# Harlem Renaissance × Photomontage — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=harlem-renaissance+photomontage
# Harlem Renaissance carries the structure. Photomontage 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 Harlem Renaissance (Style, 1920s–1930s) and its accent from Photomontage (Technique, 1910s–). Structural cues: Black self-representation; The jazz age; Magazines and publishing; Modern figures. Accent cues, used sparingly: Cut-out photographs; Mixed scales; Visible seams; Reused print matter. Composition: Cut figures into flat silhouettes and run images at the text column width.. Type and lettering: Letterspaced light capitals for headings, quiet settings for text meant to be read.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Magazine and newspaper cuttings, paste, rephotography, seams kept or hidden. Mood: Exhilaration, Rebellion, Luxury, Play. Color: build on #d7bc83, #8a4937, #24201e with a single accent drawn from #e6dfd0, #b83b2f, #1d1b19. 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
# - Harlem Renaissance: Borrowing it as jazz age decoration drops the point, which was Black people representing themselves, and leaves a period flavored ornament.
# - Photomontage: Copying only the cutting and pasting leaves fragments side by side with no collision, and the criticism the method existed for never lands.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/harlem-renaissance/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/photomontage/design.md