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It seems Lomography is back. Again.

Back in the 90s some artists discovered the LOMO LC-A (Lomo Kompakt Automat), a soviet era cheap film camera which they used for self-expression. The distortions of the cheap camera were the preferred feature. And for a time a lomography movement started, with a focus on spontan snapshots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_camera#Lomography

https://aboutphotography.blog/blog/history-of-lomography

The echoes of Lomography then found themselves in the very early German/Austrian blogosphere – Lomographic snapshots, then with digicams, were often seen in blogs of the early 2000s. There were even group weblogs, some of which are even going 20 years on:

https://lomo.blogger.de

https://mks.antville.org

In my opinion the very early artistic filters with whom Instagram started – long before Kardashian culture - must have been influenced by cheap film or digital cameras and tried to replicate those effects with smartphone cameras:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram#/media/File:Instagra...



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