"The Future is Analogue" -Lomographers
Lomography is the name of this lo-fi/hi-fi, analogue technique that was instigated by two Viennese students touring Prague. The fairly recent activities responsible behind “a magazine, a shop, and a community,” as the website spouts. The history is seemingly more interesting than the fashionable home page leads one to believe. The word “Lomography” stems from the LOMO LC-A camera, which was a soviet modified Cosina CX-1. The Lomo was put into production in 1982, and features a sharp glass lens and a very high light sensitivity. The camera was found in a hole in the wall camera shop in Prague by visiting art students in 1991, and it has been their project to br...Read more