#nostalgic
A cross-section of the catalog tagged nostalgic — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Photography 6
- Era Aesthetics 5
- Anime & Manga 1
- 3D / CGI 1
Styles tagged #nostalgic
13 styles
1970s New Hollywood
The New Hollywood look is the photographic and cinematographic language of American films roughly 1967 to 1980 — gritty crime dramas, roa…
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1980s Neon / Synthwave
Synthwave (the music) and the 80s-neon visual aesthetic (the look) are two halves of the same retro-future revival. The visual rules are…
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2010s Filtered Photo
This is a real period look, not a joke. Between roughly 2010 and 2015, hundreds of millions of photographs were run through a small set o…
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35mm Film Photography
35mm film photography is the look of the dominant consumer and editorial photographic format of the second half of the twentieth century.…
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90s Anime Cel Look
Between roughly 1989 and 2001, almost all Japanese anime was animated on physical celluloid sheets and shot on 35mm film before being bro…
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Cottagecore
Cottagecore is the 2017–present internet aesthetic that romanticizes pre-industrial European rural life. The visual rules are not histori…
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Cross-Processed
Cross-processing is the deliberate misuse of film chemistry: developing color slide film (E-6 process) in negative-film chemistry (C-41)…
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Instant Film
Instant film photography shares three properties no digital filter has fully reproduced: a chemical color cast that drifts toward magenta…
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90s Console Game Pre-Render
Mid-1990s 3D console games (roughly 1995–2001) produced a now-iconic look defined by the technical constraints of the hardware itself. Lo…
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Painterly Street Color
This painterly color street photography approach captured American cities in color from the late 1940s through the 1970s, at a time when…
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Vaporwave
Vaporwave is the internet-native aesthetic that emerged around 2010–2012 from chopped-and-screwed remixes of 1980s muzak, smooth jazz, an…
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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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Pastel Symmetric Storybook
This visual language is one of the most imitated in contemporary cinema for a reason: it is rule-based and easy to identify. The rules ar…
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