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 Japanese Realism Photography: Move in wide and keep hands and feet inside the frame
- Type
- Set in Japanese Realism Photography's manner (Headlines name the subject plainly, with no metaphor), 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 Japanese Realism Photography's material (Push the film, keep the grain, print on the hard side); bring in exactly one thing from Street Photography (Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 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
- 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.
Image prompt
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.
Related entries
- Japanese Realism Photography 1950–1958 / Style / Photography Movements
The postwar Japanese movement Domon Ken led under 'absolutely unstaged, absolute snapshots.' Hiroshima and Children of Chikuho faced society directly, drawing amateur monthly contests into the reconnection of photography and life.
- 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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