#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 — Bonnie and Clyde, Easy R…
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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 Instagram Filtered
This is a real period look, not a joke. Between Instagram's launch in October 2010 and roughly 2015, hundreds of millions of photographs…
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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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Polaroid / Instant Film
Polaroid and instant film share three properties no digital filter has fully reproduced: a chemical color cast that drifts toward magenta…
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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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Saul Leiter Street Color
Saul Leiter shot color street photography in New York from the late 1940s through the 1970s while almost nobody else was — Walker Evans a…
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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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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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Wes Anderson Symmetric
Wes Anderson's visual language is the most imitated in contemporary cinema for a reason: it is rule-based and easy to identify. The rules…
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