#monochrome
A cross-section of the catalog tagged monochrome — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Photography 5
- Illustration 2
- Comic & Graphic 2
- Era Aesthetics 1
- Mixed Media & Experimental 1
- Cinematic Looks 1
- Anime & Manga 1
- Painting 1
- Print & Poster 1
Styles tagged #monochrome
15 styles
1990s Grunge
Grunge as a visual style grew out of independent zine and magazine design of the early 1990s, plus the album-art and music-video aestheti…
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Cyanotype Photogram
A cyanotype is a 19th-century photographic printing process — paper coated with ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, expos…
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Cyanotype
The cyanotype process was invented in 1842 and was used almost immediately to produce one of the first photographically illustrated books…
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Gritty High-Contrast B&W
Postwar Tokyo produced some of the most influential street photography to come out of Japan, built on a visual signature that is extreme:…
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Crosshatched Gothic
A distinctive body of small illustrated books from the mid-20th century, each one set in a faintly Edwardian elsewhere and rendered in ob…
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Film Noir
Film noir is not just "black and white." It is a specific photographic grammar built in 1940s Hollywood out of three constraints — German…
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Stark Noir Comic
A landmark black-and-white American crime comic tradition built around a single technical choice: no halftones, no gray, no rendering bet…
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Documentary Photojournalism
A photographer-owned documentary tradition founded in 1947 as a cooperative — the first of its kind where photographers controlled their…
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Heavy-Shadow Comic
A severely simplified, high-contrast comic-art idiom built from massive spotted blacks — the modern descendant of 1930s woodcut novels an…
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Editorial Ink Cartoon
American literary-magazine editorial illustration and cartooning has run in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is…
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Dark Fantasy Seinen Manga
Seinen ("young man") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at adult male readers, published across a range of adult-oriented manga…
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Sumi-e Ink Wash
Sumi-e ("ink picture") is the Japanese name for ink-wash painting introduced from China by Zen Buddhist monks in the 14th century. The pr…
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Swiss International Typographic
The Swiss / International Typographic Style emerged in Zurich and Basel in the late 1940s and dominated corporate and editorial design fr…
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Tintype / Wet Plate
The wet-plate collodion process was invented in 1851 and was the dominant photographic process from roughly 1855 to 1880, before gelatin…
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Mid-Century Street Photography
An amateur street photographer worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York from the 1950s through the 1990s and shot roughly 150,000 photog…
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