Post-Modernism

Nothing is original and everything is a reference and that is exactly the joke. Include at least one element that is aware of the camera a prop that references photography, a gaze that breaks the fourth wall because self-awareness is the medium of postmodernism

Capture: Portrait of subject in front of an architectural pastiche building that combines mismatched historical styles; Studio shot using a deliberate visual cliché the subject knows it is a cliché, the camera knows it, and both commit anyway; Flat-lay collage of mismatched cultural objects with no unifying period or style but clear organizational logic; Environmental shot in a postmodern building interior marble columns in a shopping mall, classical details in a gas station; Deadpan portrait with a single ironic prop or text element that reframes everything around it.

Perfectly average three-point studio lighting the kind that a commercial photographer would use without thinking; the post-modern irony is in the framing, not the light

Good locations include: Postmodern commercial building with applied ornament, Shopping mall atrium with fake skylights, Las Vegas-style themed environment, Academic campus with competing architectural styles.

Deliberately mixed references Victorian collar with sportswear, classical drapery with modern accessories; historical and contemporary in uncomfortable proximity