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.
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:
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:
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...