Lomography

ロモグラフィー / 1992– / Style / Photographic Genres

A movement that wrote the accidents of the Soviet LC-A toy camera into a charter. Vignetting, color casts and cross-processed saturation were all affirmed under ten rules and the instruction not to think but to shoot, which made it the forerunner of post-digital love for analog.

Lomography — Cross-processed shot from an LC-A (CC BY 3.0) · © Toomore Chiang — Cross-processed shot from an LC-A (CC BY 3.0) · CC BY 3.0 · © Toomore Chiang

Lomography — Street snapshot taken with a Lomo (CC BY 3.0) · © Toomore Chiang — Street snapshot taken with a Lomo (CC BY 3.0) · CC BY 3.0 · © Toomore Chiang

At a glance

Visual cues

Heavy vignetting
Cross-process color shifts
Multiple-exposure chance
Shooting from the hip

Best used for

Brand shoots for young audiences that need energy more than polish
Disposable-camera programs handed to the people at an event

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Dictionary entry

Type: Handwritten dates and stickers over anything typeset
Composition: Shoot from the hip and leave the cut off edges alone
Material: Keep the vignette and the cross processed color shift as they came
Caution: The accidents get added afterwards as filters, so nothing is left but calculated chance in a picture where failure was never possible.
Further study: the ten golden rules / the Vienna origin / toy camera culture (Holga, Diana)

Related entries

Snapshot Aesthetic (スナップショット美学)Same Photographic Genres lineage.Compare Lomography and Snapshot Aesthetic
Instant Photography (インスタント写真)Shared effects: Play / Nostalgia.Compare Lomography and Instant Photography

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