Why do people who use lomo use expired films?

Lomo is an abbreviation. In 1950s, there was a factory in St. Petersburg, Soviet Union, which specialized in producing military optical lenses. It is called Leningrad Optical Instrument Factory, which is the largest optical instrument factory in Russia. LOMO LC-A is a 35mm automatic exposure paraxial camera developed and produced by this factory in the former Soviet Union. Now Lomo has a new meaning. Lomo is to make our life magical and open, and to make our life open and magical. Lomo= Rama, Le Mo, naked cat ... Le Mo! Although there are many translated versions, in Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province, Lomo fans have given it a proper Chinese name-Le Mo-which makes us touch life happily!

LOMO past life

LOMO camera was born in Leningrad optical-mechanical joint venture in 1950s. It is a small simple camera used by the spy department of the former Soviet Union. Because of its special application field, it can shoot day and night without blinking. Portable low-tech 35 mm automatic exposure paraxial camera. Originally it was a Minox imitating Lycra. At that time, this camera was not very popular. There was only a simple B door without aperture, and the imaging quality was not high, and the dark angle of the photo was relatively large.

Because the camera is particularly sensitive to red, blue and yellow, the photos developed with positive films are extremely bright in color.

Regarding the formation of LOMO art, we should first mention Lomo LC-A, which is the origin of Lomography. Lomo camera was originally a product of the former Soviet Union. 1manufactured by Leningrad Institute of Optics and Mechanics in the early 1980s. It is a "Yangchun fool camera" made for the needs of the public.

Lomography is gradually emerging.

The Lomography Society makes the Lomo camera appear the myth of regeneration, but at the same time, it must be ensured that it can develop in the long run. Lomographic began to rise in St. Petersburg in 1982. Requiring Lomo manufacturers to mass-produce spy cameras not only benefits the people, but also brings honor to the Soviet Union.

The Lomographic craze began in St. Petersburg in 1982. On a sunny morning, General Korniczky put a small Japanese camera (Cocina CX-2) on the table. His close comrade-in-arms panfilov (director of Lomo Soviet Optical Factory) carefully looked at the camera and found that the lens was clear, the sensitivity was extremely high and the appearance was solid. Two people noticed its characteristics and potential, and immediately studied how to improve the design. I hope to produce a full-featured all-weather camera, with the purpose of providing fun for the people of the whole Soviet Union and recording the socialist life and the glory of the motherland. Finally, Lomo LC-A was born, and millions of cameras sold out quickly. People from the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cuba and East Germany began to participate in the 1980s.

LC-A is a compact automatic camera, which provides daily photography tools for the public. But there is great value hidden behind simplicity: Minitar 1 lens designed by Professor Radionor produces bright colors under wide-angle lens. Generally, it only appears in the automatic sensing function of expensive professional cameras, which makes Lomo can be used in any environment and can create outstanding line effects at night. A hollow life, a hard and clean metal structure, and an intoxicating Soviet atmosphere.

The appearance of Lomo LC-A

Now people in the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cuba and East Germany are still living under capitalism. At the same time, two Austrian Vienna art students, WolfgangStranzinger and MatthiasFiegl, went to Prague for a holiday in the early summer of 199 1 and tasted Czech democracy for the first time in a scorching atmosphere. Due to the popularity of high-tech electronic cameras in Asia at that time, LC-A has been discontinued, and the rest can only be found in old camera shops. Two Vienna students were so excited that they bought an old Lomo camera-LC-A in a second-hand shop.

On the bright streets of Prague, they took a snapshot: from the top of the head, from the back, from the bottom ... The whole trip ended with beer, vodka and LC-A. After returning to Vienna, they took the film to the supermarket for development, and they were very shocked after seeing the photos! The bright, happy and hazy effect has injected a new feeling into Czech face, and the image effect has never been so enjoyable!

1992, the official organization of LOMO: lomo graphic society was established in Vienna. The purpose is to release information about Lomography to the whole world.

LOMOgraphy is not only a platform for communication among LOMO enthusiasts, but also an organization that distributes and sells Lomo cameras online. This is what everyone calls "LOMO official".

Lomo has gradually become the new favorite of fashion, and the secret of Lomo's happiness has spread rapidly among young people in Europe, becoming the new favorite of underground art and cultural circles.

Unfortunately, after privatization, Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Bureau, which produces Lomo cameras in the Soviet Union, will abolish the loss-making camera department and schedule 1996 to stop work and close the factory. Hearing this, the two men quickly asked the factory that had been closed for a long time to reopen and then produce Lomo automatic cameras.

1996, the two men persuaded Putin, then the mayor of St. Petersburg and the general manager of Leningrad Optical Instruments Union, to continue to produce the "super fool camera", which is not only beneficial to their national economy, but also important for promoting art and culture.

The Lomo revolution has begun. This factory produces 2000 Lomo cameras a month, but the price has risen from $30 for 1995 to about $200. (This is one of the reasons why there are different versions of LCA, but in April 2005, LCA was completely discontinued! )

After the student and his friends posted photos of the banquet or daily scenes and objects taken with LOMO on the kitchen wall, they started the "LOMOWALL" exchange activity.

1997, the first LOMO world congress was held in Madrid, Spain, and 15000 photos were displayed side by side in mosaic style. The whole exhibition wall is108m long. Become the new favorite of underground art and culture.

Today, if you still think that "fool photography" means backwardness, then you are far behind the times, because this "LOMO casual photography style" is very popular in Europe and Japan! Shoot whatever you want, shoot continuously, ignore the orthodox photography rules, and only pay attention to personal randomness and authenticity. Maybe you don't think this is an artistic act, but an emotional vent in adolescence. But, you are wrong! This is art, a new photography art!

These promoted and secretly spread Lomo cameras and the people who took impromptu photos with them are "Lomoer". Countless Lomo people all over the world, from Cuba to Japan and Vietnam, are saying, "LOMO is not only a creative photography, but also a way of existence." Lomo's creative philosophy is: "move quickly, don't think too much, open your eyes to the surrounding environment, absorb more and enjoy communication." Lomo, which is composed of creativity and motivation, is open to everyone who is curious and loves to press the shutter. Through Lomo, art gradually permeates our daily life.

Characteristics of Lomo camera

Lomo camera is characterized by wide lens (32mm), high speed, strong color and no flash. The darker the light, the better the effect. It also has a special "tunnel effect": the periphery of the photo will appear much darker than the middle. However, these technical or optical features are not characteristics of Lomo. On the contrary, its main attraction is a cross-regional underground creative activity.

Celebrities with Lomo: Nobuyoshi Araki, a famous Japanese photographer (he has two photo albums with LOMO), many of whom are engaged in scientific music, such as Moby, david byrne and jarvis Koukol of Pulp Orchestra. International celebrities such as Wong Kar-wai, Issey Miyake and Du Kefeng all own LOMO cameras.

Lomo's goal is to record everything on earth through thousands of snapshots of Qian Qian.

Lomo has been looking for that kind of natural improvisation aesthetic. This is a new photography orientation, composition and focusing are out of date, and blur and randomness are the trends and classics. This Lomo attitude liberated all the followers of traditional ideas. Forget it and shoot! Lomo people are not limited to the ancient photography mode. Photos are the basis of Lomo. Nothing feels better than fresh Lomo photos. Lomo pictures collect, appreciate and show all the wonderful photos, which are mysterious, pleasant, vague and boring. Simply put, it's all in life.

Find a place, lie down and enjoy yourself. Or, pick up your Lomo camera and share your photos with us! Show the world your masterpieces, your lucky things, your strange sense of photography and your most personal vision of photography. Take out your Lomo camera now, take pictures of people around you and bring them into your unique vision! Don't think too much, just hurry up.

From now on, please don't forget: you are Lomoer.

LOMO is in China.

LOMO officially entered China in early 2003, but as early as 2002, LOMO culture had already begun.

However, the epidemic will not happen until early 2004. Some clues can be seen from the price change of the classic model LC-A of LOMO camera: in June 2003, the price of LC-A was between 400-500 yuan, but nobody asked. In March 2004, the price of LC-A suddenly rose to about 1000 yuan, and there was often a phenomenon that there was no market for it.

As a new cultural force of youth photography, LOMO surprised China, a representative of ancient culture, when he was 1 1 years old. On June 29th, 2004, "LOMO World Congress 2004" landed in Beijing, China after five world congresses in Madrid, new york, Tokyo, Cologne and Vienna. Many LOMO photographers and enthusiasts gathered at the conference. More than 3,000 photographers from 65 countries submitted 60,000 works for the conference, forming the world's largest photography wall of more than 200 meters. At 7 o'clock on the evening of July 2, this LOMO wall suddenly appeared on the ancient circular wall in ritan park. Colorful LOMO photography strongly stimulates every nerve cell of every audience.

LOMO close-up

In 1990s, two students discovered a small and mysterious Russian camera, Lomo Kompakt Automat, and used this camera to create a brand-new artistic style of improvisation photography. Their way is to take as many photos as possible in the most impossible situation and in the most unusual posture. As a result, many wonderful photos from all over the world, such as true, colorful, wild, novel and unusual, followed. After that, these photos were arranged and combined into a sea of Lomograph, which amazed the viewers with its pure color, diversity and strong expression. After nearly100000 LOMO photographers successfully held exhibitions in Moscow, new york, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Havana, Zurich, Cologne, Madrid, Cairo and Tokyo, Lomography established its international reputation.

LOMO, a photography style, has gradually developed from the screen of Vienna avant-garde art into an international cultural movement with far-reaching social influence. All along, the photographer of LOMO Association has "discovered" or promoted the products specially developed to support this development. These products include special fast cameras (such as 4-lens cameras and holga cameras), photography fashion, photographic equipment, LOMO photography related books and so on. In addition, there are various cultural activities organized by LOMO photographers from 35 countries around the world. The specially established LOMO ambassador is responsible for the affairs of LOMO photographers in this region, and organizes various activities, such as exhibitions, parties, film exhibitions, LOMO photography activities, exhibitions, publications and international and local art projects. In addition, it is also responsible for art projects in cooperation with the film industry, music industry and emerging media, and provides support for annual world events and competitions in the region.

The social and visualism advocated by LOMO photography had a great influence on the function and aesthetics of photography in the 1990s. Today, LOMO Photography Group has more than 500,000 members worldwide. There are ordinary people like you and me, but there are also celebrities like Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, david byrne, Pulp, Gangdom, Helmut Lang, Moby and robert redford. And these are just a small part of those excellent photographers. The basic concepts of LOMO are: quick capture, no need to think much, open-minded, absorbing things, and like chatting. These concepts have spread all over the communication culture and become shared cognition in the network. This creative premise is based on the interesting combination of high-end technology and low-end technology, as well as the integration of social institutions and commercial photography design companies. This artistic technique makes LOMO play such a unique role in today's global communication era.

LOMO photographers are working hard with hundreds of LOMO photographers who are about to grow to millions, and are committed to the never-ending LOMOgraphicSysiphus project: Lomo World Database. This is the most extensive snapshot photo archive ever. Here, you can see all the strangest and most incredible pictures in our lives.

Where is this database? In LOMO photographer's shoe box, it is piled up on the photographer's chair, desk, cupboard, drawer, ceiling and floor, on the wall of LOMO house, in LOMO photo album and in the office of LOMO International Association. . . . . . These carefully selected masterpieces are included in the constantly developing website of LOMO Global Exchange Center in www.lomography.com.

When it comes to the most popular photography tool for young people, LOMO must be the first one. What is the charm of LOMO that drives LOMO fans around the world crazy? In fact, LOMO was a mini camera for Russian spies in 1950s. It was rediscovered by the Germans nine years ago and then reproduced. However, because only 3000 cameras are produced a year, LOMO fans all over Europe and Japan are always in the forefront.

The most special thing about LOMO is its lens. Through its unique bending angle, it can shoot day and night without flashing, and is particularly sensitive to red, blue and yellow. Photos made with positive films are extremely bright in color.

In addition, don't be scared by the action of aperture and focal length. Holding a LOMO in your hand, you can take it whenever you want. Don't care about the angle and posture. Remember to let the print shop develop all the photos, even if it is overexposed and the contrast is blurred, it will definitely have unexpected effects. Because there is no need for a flash, it is recommended to use a film with a sensitivity of 400.

Then came an "action sampler". The negative can show four consecutive frames of slow motion without focusing and aperture. This is definitely a good camera. In addition to enjoying it alone, you can also collage LOMOWALLS. It is said that the visual revolution produced by mosaics is a wave set off by LOMOWALLS.

LOMO is an organization called "LOMO Association" in major cities around the world, and its headquarters is in Vienna. Although it has global gatherings and formal organizations, it is not serious at all. The spirit of Lomo Society is to turn the camera into a portable life observation device, and make LOMO people feel lonely all over the world with the help of LOMO societies all over the world in an informal way.

LOMO rule

Capture the moment

Since the early 1990s, Japanese jade girl photographer/artist Hironix has been running around with silly cameras, which has become a spontaneous photography trend. Not only the works, but also the cameras themselves have gained new popularity. Out-of-focus, blurred and unclear photos are acceptable as long as they capture the "moment". The works of popular photographers Jurgen Teller and terry Richardson are both famous for the roughness, truth and improvisation of this daily life.

1998 by Italian design team Bionco &；; Pipoca Instant Fashion, a popular photo collection published by Cucco, consists of a series of Polaroid photos. Polaroid's unique authenticity and the impossibility of reprocessing in a darkroom make this book a best seller. This "instant film style" is still used by Vogue magazine.

Lomo, a low-tech camera without flash and battery, is dumber than a fool and is favored by players. Walking the Street introduces you to this new term and the power of stupid machines.

In the digital image century, camera players are busy upgrading their equipment and catching up with high technology. While discussing high-tech issues such as resolution and pixels, low-tech cameras have not disappeared, just trying to innovate and return to the basics. Famous camera brands such as Fuji and Canon have all introduced low-tech cameras, but the most representative and popular one is the low-tech Russian spy camera Lomo.

Lomo set off a craze abroad, and Lomo fan clubs were established one after another, which also formed Lomography. There are many ways to remember and imagine. You can do DV or keep a diary ... but you chose photography. So, LOMO went to the dressing room, LOMO went to the subway station, LOMO went to the bar story, LOMO went to the fast food restaurant ... and then attached some words or untitled content.

Two years ago, it was popular for Japanese girls to take photos at will and keep a diary with a stupid machine. They take whatever they want, shoot continuously, ignore the orthodox photography rules, and only pay attention to personal randomness and authenticity. Maybe you think this is not an artistic act, but an emotional vent of adolescent girls. But, you are wrong! This is art, a new photography art!

Very stupid

What is LOMO art? Let's talk about LOMO first. LOMO is just some super stupid cameras. LOMO art is to shoot the world in front of you with these stupid cameras.

Basically, you don't need a flash, you don't need to adjust the aperture, you don't need to focus, just press the shutter. Isn't it a broken camera? Yes, LOMO is indeed a fool, even more stupid than an automatic camera. It was so stupid that the main model of LOMO camera, LOMO LC-A, was on the verge of production suspension, because everyone thought that this simple fool was not suitable for the development of modern society.

This is a digital age, and the gold content of technology has become an indicator for digital enthusiasts to compare; There is no need to wait for shooting, and the scene in front of you can be displayed and browsed immediately. How can I choose this antique camera?

But the world doesn't revolve by our subjectivity, and no one knows what will happen tomorrow. Tomorrow, will Feng Shui turn back? Today, a new generation of young people seems to be infected with one of the "new cultural infectious diseases" that restore historical sites. They pulled the antiques out of the bottom of the box and found that LOMO, an unparalleled clumsy camera, seemed to be more fun, with more people playing and a fashionable way coming out.

Yeah, I'm tired of playing with everything. Tired of playing with numbers, so playing with film; Tired of playing with real-time display, I play with the unpredictability of photos (because no one knows what kind of photos I will get from LOMO's old camera). The society is changing faster and faster, and the high-tech digital number just felt is now out of date. LOMO's clumsiness attracts young people's favor, because LOMO is patience, feeling, stupidity and simplicity have become advantages. Of course, at this time, the "stupidity" of fools has been euphemistically called "not thinking".

Enough fun.

Look at some photos I took casually, and they are almost like works of art. To tell the truth, it is hard for young people not to be moved. More importantly, LOMO's gorgeous colors are almost seamless with our fantasy of this rotating world.

In this world, there are bars, electronic psychedelic music, experimental noise, performance art, DVD, internet, skateboarding and all kinds of new things that belong to us. We must decorate our city with these weapons, otherwise it will be boring-the air is dull, pedestrians panic, and the foggy sky covers all illusions.

If we observe the cities under these gray raincoats through LOMO cameras, it seems to have produced magic and changed our memory of the cities. The tree is green, I am walking, the music is playing, the computer is on, the picture is turning, and all the details in life are extremely bright. Our night, our road, our expressions and emotions are all infected by the confusion and illusion of the photos.

Therefore, it is not surprising that LOMO art has become fashionable. Its antiquity and simplicity just meet the needs of modern people and set foot on the beat of their psychedelic music.

They don't consider any skills at all, just as they don't consider any rules at all. They love themselves enough to love LO-MO that records their lives. They don't want the so-called eternity, they don't believe in your promise, they only believe in every accidental existence and their own instant feelings, so LOMO art is a kind of childlike and uncertain creation.

In fact, LOMO art is a simple and extremely individualistic toy. It represents the most primitive way of existence-recording, recording everything about yourself. No matter how you shoot, horizontally or vertically, you choose LOMO's attitude towards life with an antique camera.

These cameras have some similarities. First, it is cheap (although the price has skyrocketed, it is still relatively cheap). Second, it is too old to be old, as if it were all antiques turned out from the bottom of the box; Third, it's all very popular now. Ha ha.

Reduction and subversion

Taking pictures is a very ritualized experience. Facing the camera, people are full of anxiety and expectation, not knowing what will be born in that magical box. However, the appearance of digital cameras has completely turned photography into a cheap pastime. The next second, you can see the effect of the photo on the display screen. If it is not ideal, delete the remake immediately.

Perhaps, when something is too easy, it is no longer interesting. The seemingly random Lomo has a very high threshold, that is, the photographer should be imaginative, not afraid of trouble, and know how to appreciate the beauty of the process. Loading film, shooting, developing film, scanning, etc. It actually tests people's patience. The significance of Lomo rebirth in today's society lies not in its efficiency, but in its spirit of returning to nature and going against the trend!

It has become a worldwide underground art trend to complicate simple crafts, simplify complex aesthetics and artistically reduce and subvert imperfections.

Ten principles of LOMO

1. Take your lomo with you wherever you go. Always use it, day and night, every time.

2.Lomo is a part of life. LOMO will not interfere in your life, it is a part of your life.

3. Shoot from the ass. Whistling from the hips and the top of the head

4. Get as close as possible to the object you expect. As close as possible to the object you desire.

5. Don't think about it. Don't think about it.

6. hurry up. fast

7. You don't need to know in advance what you will get in the photo. You don't have to know what you're shooting.

8. You don't have to imagine what you will shoot later. You don't need to realize what you took.

9. Combine your photos at will.

10. Ignore these rules. Don't worry about the rules