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 Instant Photography: Compose for the square and keep it to one or two people
- Type
- Set in Instant Photography's manner (Handwrite date and name in the white margin below), and let Lomography's lettering (Handwritten dates and stickers over anything typeset) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Instant Photography's material (Build the development wait into the event and leave color drift alone); bring in exactly one thing from Lomography (Keep the vignette and the cross processed color shift as they came).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Instant Photography The style collapses into a white frame added in software, and the core of it, handing someone the only copy that exists, is lost.
- Lomography The accidents get added afterwards as filters, so nothing is left but calculated chance in a picture where failure was never possible.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Instant Photography (Technique, 1948–) and its accent from Lomography (Style, 1992–). Structural cues: The white-bordered square; Tender drifting color; The wait for development; One-of-a-kind materiality. Accent cues, used sparingly: Heavy vignetting; Cross-process color shifts; Multiple-exposure chance; Shooting from the hip. Composition: Compose for the square and keep it to one or two people. Type and lettering: Handwrite date and name in the white margin below. Let one material quality come from the second style: Keep the vignette and the cross processed color shift as they came. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Nostalgia, Rebellion. 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.
Related entries
- Instant Photography 1948– / Technique / Photographic Techniques
Polaroid made the picture appear on the spot. The white-bordered square, the soft color of chemical development and the fact that only one copy exists became a language of intimacy that outlived digital and carries on in Instax.
- Lomography 1992– / Style / Photographic Genres
A movement that wrote the accidents of the Soviet LC-A toy camera into a charter. Vignetting, color casts and cross-processed saturation were all affirmed under ten rules and the instruction not to think but to shoot, which made it the forerunner of post-digital love for analog.
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