Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Liminal Space: Shoot corridors head on in one point perspective with nobody present
- Type
- Set in Liminal Space's manner (Keep the existing wayfinding signs and add no new lettering), and let Tableau Photography's lettering (Make the text in the frame as a prop rather than borrowing a typeface) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Liminal Space's material (Greenish fluorescent white, dated flooring, damp reflections, weak shadows); bring in exactly one thing from Tableau Photography (Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big).
- Colour
- Build on #d1c58a, #718074, #292a28 and admit one accent from #e4ddd2, #92705e, #2c2623.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Liminal Space The more unusual the building, the less it touches memory, because the sense of having been here only arrives in ordinary places everyone has passed through.
- Tableau Photography Staging that only imitates a natural record leaves the assumption that photographs record reality untouched, and the whole reason for constructing the scene disappears.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Liminal Space (aesthetic, late-2010s–) and their accent from Tableau Photography (style, 1970s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Liminal Space exists for: photographing empty facilities at night to show that time has stopped, or choosing settings for work about waiting and passing through. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Liminal Space - Empty corridors - Fluorescent light - Dated interiors - Public space after midnight Composition: Shoot corridors head on in one point perspective with nobody present. Type and lettering: Keep the existing wayfinding signs and add no new lettering. ## Accent comes from Tableau Photography, used sparingly - A single large print made to hang - Figures who never look back at you - Interiors and streets built to the last corner - Lighting borrowed from cinema Let one material quality come from it: Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #d1c58a, carry the structure in #718074 and #292a28, and let a single accent come from #92705e. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: calm, nostalgia, rebellion, luxury, play. ## What goes wrong - Liminal Space: The more unusual the building, the less it touches memory, because the sense of having been here only arrives in ordinary places everyone has passed through. - Tableau Photography: Staging that only imitates a natural record leaves the assumption that photographs record reality untouched, and the whole reason for constructing the scene disappears. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Liminal Space late-2010s– / Aesthetic / Internet Aesthetics
Photographs transitional spaces empty when people ought to be in them, drawing out déjà vu, loneliness and the sense that time has stopped. The subjects carry their own names in circulation, from the empty indoor pool to the night corridor to the mall after closing.
- Tableau Photography 1970s / Style / Photography Movements
Assembles the scene before the shutter and holds it in a single print made to hang like a painting, its figures acting as if no viewer were there.
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