#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 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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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 by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and used almost immediately by the botanist Anna Atkins to produce Photog…
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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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Edward Gorey Crosshatched Gothic
Edward Gorey produced more than 100 small books between 1953 and his death in 2000, each one set in a faintly Edwardian elsewhere and ren…
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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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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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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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Mike Mignola High-Contrast
Mike Mignola's work on Hellboy (1994–present) and B.P.R.D. defined a recognizable, severely simplified, high-contrast comic-art idiom — a…
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New Yorker Editorial Ink
The New Yorker has run editorial illustration and cartoons in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is not one artis…
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Seinen Manga (Berserk-style)
Seinen ("young man") manga is the Japanese category aimed at adult male readers, published in magazines like Young Magazine, Big Comic Sp…
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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 by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 and was the dominant photographic process from roughly 185…
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Vivian Maier Mid-Century Street
Vivian Maier worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York from the 1950s through the 1990s and shot roughly 150,000 photographs that nobody…
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