Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, you're young and you find something to be "special"... LOMO is/was a youngster's statement/discovery. And, one must say, some folks in Vienna marketed it very well. So the crowd hopped on the trend. And then it became trendy to call it "pass?". Sure, it takes crappy photos. But some are at least very interesting. As is the case with any other photo taken with any other camera. It's not about the camera, it's about the photographer IMO. And you cannot deny that the LOMO movement drew a LOT of people back to photography. Which isn't that bad, is it? > From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:22:18 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another camera classic bites the dust > > 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >