#gritty
A cross-section of the catalog tagged gritty — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Photography 3
- Comic & Graphic 3
- Anime & Manga 2
- Era Aesthetics 1
- Mixed Media & Experimental 1
- 3D / CGI 1
- Cinematic Looks 1
Styles tagged #gritty
12 styles
1990s Grunge
Grunge as a visual style is mostly David Carson's design language for Beach Culture (1990–91) and Ray Gun magazine (1992–95), plus the al…
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Akira / Otomo Mecha
Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (manga 1982–90, film 1988) established a specific cyberpunk-anime aesthetic that almost every subsequent grounded…
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Bleach Bypass
Bleach bypass (also called skip-bleach or ENR after Technicolor's named process variant) is a film-chemistry technique where the bleachin…
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Daido Moriyama High-Contrast B&W
Daido Moriyama's photographs of postwar Tokyo are the most influential street photography to come out of Japan. The visual signature is e…
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Frank Miller Sin City
Frank Miller's Sin City (1991–present at Dark Horse) is the most influential black-and-white American comic of the post-1990 era. The vis…
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Lo-Fi Zine / Cut-and-Paste
The lo-fi zine aesthetic — photocopied, hand-assembled, deliberately rough printed matter — emerged from the late-1970s punk scene (Sniff…
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Magnum Documentary
Magnum Photos was founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, and George Rodger as a photographer-owned…
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Modern Image / Indie Comic
"Image / indie comic" describes the visual mainstream of American creator-owned comics from roughly 1992 (Image Comics' founding) to the…
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PS1 / N64 Game Pre-Render
The PlayStation 1 / Nintendo 64 era of 3D games (1995–2001) produced a now-iconic look defined by the technical constraints of the consol…
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Spike Lee Double Dolly
Spike Lee's visual signature includes the most distinctive single shot in modern American cinema: the "double dolly," in which the camera…
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Tatsuki Fujimoto Modern
Tatsuki Fujimoto (born 1992 or 1993, exact birthdate concealed) is the most discussed contemporary mangaka in the world. Fire Punch (2016…
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Underground Comix (R. Crumb)
Underground comix (the "x" spelling is original to the movement, used to distinguish from mainstream Comics Code-approved comic books) em…
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