Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think someone may have missed the irony in the title. The LOMO lovers were never the type of people whom I would have liked to have associated with - Arty-farty types, pretentious and weird. They seemed to think that they were at the cutting edge of Zeitgeist and style. Douglas Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I am with Luis on this one. I have never understood the attraction of > the likes of Lomo, Lensbaby, Holga etc. If someone needs to use inferior > equipment for economic reasons, that's one thing (and many great images > have been produced by people in this category). But deliberately using > what amounts to a Coke bottle bottom to make pictures and then claiming > it to be ART or whatever, well... > > Suffice it to say that the Lomo will not be missed here. > > Nathan > > Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote: > >> >> On 27 de may de 2005, at 15:22, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> In the latest issue of "Fotomagazin" (Germany) there is an article >>> announcing the demise of the LOMO. >> >> >> >> crap camera keeped afloat by the lomography trend made it to raise its >> price off limits of the reasonable price tag. Cheapness was the main >> reason to be. DEP. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >