# Japanese Realism Photography × Street Photography — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=japanese-realism-photography+street-photography
# Japanese Realism Photography carries the structure. Street Photography 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 Japanese Realism Photography (Style, 1950–1958) and its accent from Street Photography (Style, late-1800s–). Structural cues: The unstaged principle; Social subjects faced directly; Close wide-angle work; Coarse-grained prints. Accent cues, used sparingly: Public space; The decisive moment; Chance arrangement; Everyday figures. Composition: Move in wide and keep hands and feet inside the frame. Type and lettering: Headlines name the subject plainly, with no metaphor. Let one material quality come from the second style: Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera. Mood: Trust, Rebellion, Intimacy, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #ddd9cf, #8a5c45, #252422. 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
# - Japanese Realism Photography: The unstaged principle is proclaimed while the subject is pressed to stay as they are, and the relation between photographer and photographed goes unexamined.
# - Street Photography: 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.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/japanese-realism-photography/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/street-photography/design.md