It showed a society matron with a monocle (labeled Fifth Avenue) inspecting a row of uniformed Schoolgirls..
Eleventh street, Tenth street and Ninth Street were all sweet little uniformed girls..the matron was getting shock seeing a disheveled Eighth Street girl smoking a cigarette and flaunting a real "attitude."
(Have searched the internet for this drawing but in vain).
Well, that was the OLD Eighth Street in the Village, with its famous commercial block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues home to the tacky Orange Julius store, hippies in sandals, questionable night clubs, and funky arts and crafts stores as well as the usual shoe stores and some "quality bookstores" including Eli Wilentz's Eight Street Bookstore, where many artists and students worked part time (it created an enormous scandal that when they tried to organize an employee's union in the early 1970's, Wilentz spitefully just shut the whole store down, decrying them all as a bunch of ingrates!)
Well anyway, the street today...
The organization called "Positively Eighth Street" however, has had it impact..
What, in heaven's name is lomography? I just have to check this out...
The Lomographic Society was formed in 1992 and maintains a strong community following through the internet. They have worked with Light for the World to raise money for vision care in Kenya, and with the International Red Cross for famine relief in East Africa. The online community allows the sharing of images and techniques, and celebrity lomographic camera owners include Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman and The White Stripes.
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Lomography also represents the commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, an Austrian company that produces cameras and other tools that cater to the needs of this photographic movement. The society is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, where most of its events are organised.[3]
In 1991, a group of Viennese students discovered the Lomo LC-A and were "charmed by the unique, colorful, and sometimes blurry" images that the camera produced.[4] The Lomographic Society International was subsequently founded in 1992.[5] After a series of international art exhibitions culminating in exhibitions in New York City and Moscow,[5] Lomography signed an exclusive distribution agreement with LOMO PLC in 1995 — thereby becoming the sole distributor of all Lomo LC-A cameras outside of the former Soviet Union.[6] The new company reached an agreement with the deputy mayor of St Petersburg, the future Russian Prime Minister and President, Vladimir Putin, to receive a tax break in order to keep the LOMO factory in the city open.[5]
Similar to Eastman Kodak's concept of the "Kodak moment", the philosophy behind Lomography is summarized in its motto, "Don’t Think, Just Shoot."[5] This motto is accompanied by The Ten Golden Rules which are supposed to encourage spontaneity, odd angles, and taking photos anywhere, while minimizing considerations of formal technique.[9] Typical Lomography cameras are deliberately low-fidelity and constructed to make sure their mechanics are not too technical. Some cameras make use of multiple lenses and rainbow-colored flashes, or exhibit extreme optical distortions and even light leaks.[10] In November 2012, the Lomographic Society International celebrated its 20th anniversary. The LC-A+ camera was re-released as a special edition and the online magazine section ran articles about some of the best lomographic shots of the last 20 years. In addition to that, a microsite was set up, highlighting some of the company's most well-known releases and stunts.[11]
Models and techniques
Lomography’s website showcases many high-contrast photographs – with unusual saturation and color – that were created using the technique called cross processing in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice versa. This technique can be employed with any film camera and can be somewhat mimicked with photo-editing software such as GIMP or Photoshop. However the use of digital manipulation to create this effect goes somewhat against the principles of Lomography.
Community
An example of the society's cultural events showcasing Lomographers' talents is the Lomokikuyu competition, which raises money for eye surgeries and vision care in Kenya, in partnership with Viennese vision aid organisation Light for the World.[12] The project has since been updated and donations now also go to the International Red Cross to help fight the famine in East Africa. More recently, portion of the sales from Japan Golden Week Edition cameras were donated to the Red Cross as relief to the victims of the March 2011 tsunami. The organisation also organises the Lomography World Congress, an international conference of practitioners held in varying host cities.
They maintain a Web-based Lomography magazine, which provides a photo archive storage to showcase the global community’s works. Articles track trends and ideas about new fun methods to photograph. Community members can blog their own tutorials to share their discoveries, fostering enthusiasm with the Lomographic art. Besides fans who are community members, Lomo Amigos, or friends of Lomography, are invited to contribute to the magazine and are often celebrities who enjoy using Lomography cameras. They include Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman, and The White Stripes. The site also celebrates the work of Lomographers with online exhibits and competitions.[13
Photo gallery
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A Lomography Fisheye 2 with a fisheye viewfinder -
A 1988 LOMO LC-A camera -
Fisheye-lens photo of Wakayama Castle
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