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 New Objectivity Photography: Frontal, level, centered, with the same background every time
- Type
- Set in New Objectivity Photography's manner (No headlines, only the subject name and conditions in one fixed format), 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 New Objectivity Photography's material (Deep depth of field, even overcast light, fine grained printing); bring in exactly one thing from Street Photography (Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera).
- Colour
- Build on #e5e2da, #81817d, #242423 and admit one accent from #ddd9cf, #8a5c45, #252422.
Where they fight
- New Objectivity Photography and Street Photography share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.
Caution
- New Objectivity Photography One frame is no typology, and without matched conditions it ends as a pile of expressionless pictures. Do not trust the pose of objectivity, and read the bias that classification and viewpoint produce.
- 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 New Objectivity Photography (Style, 1920s–1930s) and its accent from Street Photography (Style, late-1800s–). Structural cues: Sharp focus; Frontality; Repetition and types; Material detail. Accent cues, used sparingly: Public space; The decisive moment; Chance arrangement; Everyday figures. Composition: Frontal, level, centered, with the same background every time. Type and lettering: No headlines, only the subject name and conditions in one fixed format. Let one material quality come from the second style: Light gear, fast film speed, focus distance decided before raising the camera. Mood: Trust, Technology, Calm, Intimacy, Rebellion, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e5e2da, #81817d, #242423 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
- New Objectivity Photography 1920s–1930s / Style / Photography Movements
Steps back from sentiment and records the structure of people and things coolly: sharp focus, frontality, typology.
- 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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