Impacts of Lomography
Impact of Lomography
Lomography is a kind of snapshot photography developed during the post-Cold War era, and it is also “a coinage and a new trend in photography, which is usually defined as a photograph which is taken spontaneously and quickly, more often without artistic or journalistic intent” (Chen para.1). In fact, lomography originally required the deliberately low-fidelity and inexpensively constructed cameras. However, with the highly developed digital cameras and the digital single lense reflex cameras available, the growing rate of people who are attracted to lomography is surprisingly high (Lomography Society International, 2009). In this age of digital cameras, there is still a huge group of people who are attracted to lomography. As time passed, lomography has been developed into a spirit of snapshot photography and a community for people who enjoy this unpredictable way of taking pictures. Gradually, more and more people start to take lomography as part of their lives. the image editing softwares nowadays, such as Photoshop and PhotoImpact, etc, are capable of turning the regular pictures into the pictures which look exactly like the ones taken by the lomography cameras with a few clicks. It may seem strange for people who don’t fully understand the reasons why the lomographers would choose lomography instead of the digital cameras which create pictures with high-fidelity. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the impact and the significance of lomography nowadays. In order to elaborate on the impact and the significance of lomography, the history and definition of lomography, the similarities to and differences from image editing, and the reasons why people are attracted to lomography will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Generally speaking, lomography is an international vernacular-photographic movement founded by two Viennese students, Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger. In the early 1990s they discovered the
Lomography is a kind of snapshot photography developed during the post-Cold War era, and it is also “a coinage and a new trend in photography, which is usually defined as a photograph which is taken spontaneously and quickly, more often without artistic or journalistic intent” (Chen para.1). In fact, lomography originally required the deliberately low-fidelity and inexpensively constructed cameras. However, with the highly developed digital cameras and the digital single lense reflex cameras available, the growing rate of people who are attracted to lomography is surprisingly high (Lomography Society International, 2009). In this age of digital cameras, there is still a huge group of people who are attracted to lomography. As time passed, lomography has been developed into a spirit of snapshot photography and a community for people who enjoy this unpredictable way of taking pictures. Gradually, more and more people start to take lomography as part of their lives. the image editing softwares nowadays, such as Photoshop and PhotoImpact, etc, are capable of turning the regular pictures into the pictures which look exactly like the ones taken by the lomography cameras with a few clicks. It may seem strange for people who don’t fully understand the reasons why the lomographers would choose lomography instead of the digital cameras which create pictures with high-fidelity. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the impact and the significance of lomography nowadays. In order to elaborate on the impact and the significance of lomography, the history and definition of lomography, the similarities to and differences from image editing, and the reasons why people are attracted to lomography will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Generally speaking, lomography is an international vernacular-photographic movement founded by two Viennese students, Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger. In the early 1990s they discovered the
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