Purikura
プリクラ / 1995– / Style / Photographic Genres
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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Mori and big-eye retouching
- Doodles and stamps
- Tiny stickers to share
- Staged booth lighting
Best used for
- Youth campaigns built around shooting and handing out prints on the spot
- Designing small keepsakes made to be split among friends
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Scrawled lettering and stamps layered over anything typeset
- Composition
- Pack several people into split frames that cut apart into stickers
- Material
- Frontal booth light that kills shadow, with retouching offered in steps
- Caution
- Only the strength of the retouching gets copied while the act of cutting the sheet apart on the spot is skipped, leaving nothing but altered faces.
- Further study
- Print Club, 1995 / studies of mori culture / the lineage to selfie filters
Related entries
- Kawaii (カワイイ)Shared effects: Intimacy / Play / Nostalgia.Compare Purikura and Kawaii
- Instant Photography (インスタント写真)Shared effects: Intimacy / Play / Nostalgia.Compare Purikura and Instant Photography
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