# Tableau Photography (タブロー写真) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.97 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/tableau-photography
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Tableau Photography, a style from Photography Movements, 1970s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: restaging the conventions of advertising or news images to cast doubt on them, or building a story into one frame meant for exhibition, not for record. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- 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

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Fix gaze and hand positions in advance and block the frame like a painting
- Type and lettering: Make the text in the frame as a prop rather than borrowing a typeface
- Material and surface: Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big
- Colour: #e4ddd2 carries the ground, #92705e is the colour the style is remembered by, #2c2623 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: rebellion, luxury, play

## What goes wrong

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 every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/tableau-photography/design.md