Photographic Genres
写真ジャンル
Dictionary entry
- Street Photography late-1800s– / Style
Catches accident, gesture and the city's relations on the fly, in streets and public space.
- Staged Photography 19th century– / 1970s revival / Technique
Composes scene, figure, props and light before the shutter, shaking the very premise that photographs record reality.
- Lomography 1992– / Style
The movement that constitutionalized the accidents of the Soviet LC-A toy camera: vignetting, color shifts and cross-process saturation affirmed under ten rules and 'don't think, just shoot' — the vanguard of post-digital analog love.
- Spirit Photography 1862–1930s / Style
The 19th-century craft of double-exposed ghosts, from Mumler's portrait of Lincoln's widow to the séance boom — a style of media deception feeding on faith in photographic evidence itself.
- Snapshot Aesthetic 1888– / 1960s art adoption / Style
The aesthetic that adopts amateur photography's mistakes — tilt, cropping accidents, flat flash — as deliberate style. Album intimacy became art's grammar from Winogrand to Goldin.
- Fashion Photography 1911– / Style
From de Meyer's halos through Penn's seamless to Avedon's leaps: photography that sells clothes while inventing each era's image of the body, with studio light and page cropping as its laboratory.
- Aerial Photography 1858– / Style
The view from above begun with Nadar's balloon: the vertical gaze that turns cities into figures, passing through survey and war into landscape-as-abstraction, and on to satellites and drones.
- Photomicrography 1840s– / Technique
Scientific photography of structures too small to see. Bentley's snowflakes proved the scientific image beautiful — continued today in polarized color and fluorescence at Nikon Small World.
- Astrophotography 1840– / Technique
From Whipple's Moon daguerreotype to Hubble's Pillars of Creation: long exposure and instruments making the invisible universe into images — false-color decisions designing the public image of space itself.
- Purikura 1995– / Style
Japan's photo-sticker culture: doodles, mori enhancement and big-eye retouching plus tiny shareable stickers completed the grammar of edit-then-share selfies before social media existed.