Anthony Laverty
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Lomography
Lomography or the art of colourful, throwaway, lo-fi photography celebrates its 21 birthday during the year, 2013. This International photographic movement started humbly by a handful of young students living in Vienna in 1992 and grew into an international phenomenon and a global commercial enterprise. The concept came about when the small group of friends discovered the joy of using a small soviet camera, the Lomo LC-A, manufactured at the Lomo factory in St. Petersburg, Russia. The students fell in love with the unexpected colour pallet and vignetted look that the cheaply manufactured lenses produced. As the word spread through friends in Vienna, demand grew for the cameras and the Lomographic Society was formed. The entry fee was the price of a Lomo camera and with the camera came life membership and a commitment to the ethics of the Society. The society developed the concept of producing immediate, almost throw away images with the credo 'Don’t think, just shoot.' Rejecting the strict disciplines of regular photography, this movement was the equivalent of the punk rock attitude of the late 70s. Learn three chords and form a band. The lomography philosophy was; here's a camera, here's some film now go take pictures, you are a photographer. Assuming a stance like that of the Dogme 95 film movement which came along a few years later, they believed in stripping the art right back to basics. To help with this concept the Lomographic Society also came up with their own ten golden rules:
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