The Book of Lomography ? LOMO LIFE. Expired Technology and Contemporary Experiment in Visual Arts

Abstract

The creative movement of Lomography is approaching 30 years aniversary and retains its active potential in contemporary Visual Arts, apart from its own status as global cultural organization and popular creativity icon.

The approach of this paper assumes multiple points of view on the subject of Lomography, as are determined by the quoted book and direct experiments on the subject: observer of the phenomenon for some years, direct practitioner/lomographer, university art teaching, sculptural object practice, artistic research. As other artistic trends and movements of the contemporary Visual Arts, Lomography is based on the creative values of an expired technology ? the film photography. Like Typewriter Art, analogue cameras are useless artifacts? but still in use with creative people for artistic projects.? Lomographic film photographs are anyway digitized by scanning,? to be uploaded to social media platforms or dedicated websites; the creative process actually refers to The Ten Golden Rules of Lomography and the chemical magic of film development - you never know exactly what it will be on the film.? It is also the intention of this article to assume that Lomography is one of the manifestations within the contemporary concept of post-photography (as defined by Robert Shore), in the sense that many artists choose the low-fi but extremely creative experimental capabilities of cameras and lomographic techniques,? culminating with artists working on and exhibit photographies they no longer produce, those being available on Internet and already matching any concept.?