Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Editorial Collage: Choose the leading fragment; layer the rest before and behind
- Type
- Set in Editorial Collage's manner (A disciplined text face with large pull quotes), and let Street Photography's lettering (Use the signs already in the street as elements, adding none later) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Editorial Collage's material (Photos, scraps, hand-drawn lines; leave the cut edges visible); bring in exactly one thing from Street Photography (Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera).
- Colour
- Build on #ede6d8, #e4462f, #22201d and admit one accent from #ddd9cf, #8a5c45, #252422.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Editorial Collage Don't just add material. Be able to say what every fragment means.
- 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.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Editorial Collage (Technique, contemporary) and its accent from Street Photography (Style, late-1800s–). Structural cues: Cut-out photographs; Mixed scales; Collision with white space; Annotations. Accent cues, used sparingly: Public space; The decisive moment; Chance arrangement; Everyday figures. Composition: Choose the leading fragment; layer the rest before and behind. Type and lettering: A disciplined text face with large pull quotes. Let one material quality come from the second style: Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera. Mood: Rebellion, Exhilaration, Play, Intimacy. Color: build on #ede6d8, #e4462f, #22201d 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.
Related entries
- Editorial Collage contemporary / Technique / Publishing and Editing
Layers fragments from different times and contexts, showing the editor's point of view before any explanation.
- Street Photography late-1800s– / Style / Photographic Genres
Catches accident, gesture and the city's relations on the fly, in streets and public space.
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