{"id":1660,"date":"2012-11-06T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:00:25","slug":"lomography-manifestos-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Lomography Manifesto\u2019s 20th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990s, as a result of the fall of the Iron Curtain, a bunch of students living in Viennna came across the Lomo Kompakt Automat &ndash; the iconic LC-A.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The autofocus, wide-angle lens camera was easy to use and produced distinct effects such as vibrant colours and strong vignetting. Affectionados were inspired to take artistic photographs in new experimental and spontaneous ways.<\/p>\n<p>By late 1992 one of the students wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lomography.com\/magazine\/library\/2011\/01\/07\/chapter-3-the-lomography-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\">Lomography Manifesto<\/a> and shortly afterwards the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography were penned:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\nTake your camera everywhere you go\n<\/li>\n<li>\nUse it any time \u2013 day or night\n<\/li>\n<li>\nLomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTry the shot from the hip\n<\/li>\n<li>\nApproach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDon\u2019t think\n<\/li>\n<li>\nBe Fast\n<\/li>\n<li>\nYou don\u2019t have to know beforehand what you captured on film\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAfterwards either\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDon\u2019t worry about any rules\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Everything was now in place for the Lomographic Society to be founded and put on its first exhibition. Before the exhibition opened the society sent the manifesto to the<br \/>\n<em>Wiener Zeitung<\/em>, which published it verbatim on 5 November.<\/p>\n<p>The rest, they say, is history.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990s, as a result of the fall of the Iron Curtain, a bunch of students living in Viennna came across the Lomo Kompakt Automat &ndash; the iconic LC-A.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}