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Featuring Lomography:
Absolutely Private – On Photography from 2000 to the Present
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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Lomography is being presented at the exhibition 'Absolutely Private. Contemporary Photography, Vol. 4. On Photography in the Zero Decade: From 2000 to the Present' being held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. The exhibition opens on Monday March 13 and will be accompanied by Artists' Talks and Lomographers' Meetings.
Since 2002 the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has held annual exhibitions of contemporary photography, both to support the creative spirit testing new expressive possibilities in photography and to introduce contemporary photography and visual culture to photography lovers and the general public.
For the contemporary photography exhibition, the 4th volume for the tenth anniversary of the museum's opening, Photographic Theory in the Zero Decade was chosen as the overall theme under which to explore contemporary photographic work from a variety of perspectives. This exhibition addresses today's photography scene — so often hived off into contemporary photography and contemporary art or into high culture and subcultures — as a continuous whole in an effort to present the zero decade to date (the first years of the twenty-first century) in a single exhibition. The exhibition presents 15 photographers or groups from 7 countries who have established themselves with a strong influence on new potentials and new values in photography.
The Lomographic Society is presenting two 8 metre long LomoWalls with images shot by worldwide Lomographers over a decade using the Lomo LC-A, and created with a special RGB and CMY colour composition. Additionally, various historical documents tracing the footsteps of the Lomography story are on show alongside collected samples of Lomographic cameras and projects.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo
March 11 to April 23
www.tokyo-photo-museum.or.jp
For further details on the exhibition, schedule of Artists Talks, Lomographers Meetings and Opening Times please check www.lomography.com/events.
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The Lomography VJs are taking on a mission at an excellent event
in Vienna next Saturday:
Couch Night (CD release party):
INSPIRED / DESIGN MEETS SOUND
Live Visuals: The Lomography VJs
Live Music: Dzihan & Kamien / Cay Taylan / De Vibroluxe Live
Saturday, March 18. From 10pm
Museumsquarter, Mumok Hofstallungen, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna
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The music label Couch Records (www.couchrecords.com) and The Academy of Applied Arts Vienna (www.dieangwandte.at/english) have conceived of an elaborate and appealing music and design
project, commissioned by Bombay Sapphire.
Couch Records, known for its exquisite taste and an unmistakable style, and Dzihan & Kamien's homebase, have always understood music as a 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (comprehensive artwork).
In times of pirate copies and mp3 exchange portals, Bombay Sapphire and Couch Records wanted to set a sign with a product that incorporates not only the finest musical ingredients but
also has packaging that is art in itself. The idea was to integrate not only the graphics on the cover but also the industrial design of the whole package into the content of the CD.
The music compilation and its packaging should reward all those who consider music to have a consistent value. It's a CD which eludes the throw-away-society and becomes an object of
desire.
The competition to design an unusual and eye-catching package for this CD was organised in collaboration with the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Prof. Fons M. Hickmann's master class).
On November 25 a high-profile jury, including the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister among others, chose the draft by Susanne Schmid (Heinrich Böll Stiftung scholarship holder) as
winner of the contest. She took a regular speaker and prepared it to make it waterpoof. She then filled it up with the Bombay Sapphire gin and started playing the CD. The result: the
gin oscillates and the music becomes visible; each track produces different waves and different pictures within the liquid. The eleven visual cocktails, which Schmid photographed, each
represent a track on the compilation and so visualize the ingredients of music, design and Bombay Sapphire.
The music compilation and the
package for it will be presented to the public on March 18, at a release event starring DJs Dzihan & Kamien and an exhibition of all the other entries
submitted to the contest.
The Lomography VJs will be taking-up the challenge, too, and incorporating the images which the winner's object creates live into their whole show, which is taking the project's approach
as the leitmotif for the night.
See you at the party!
contact@lomography.com
www.couchrecords.com
www.lomography.com/vjs
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The Five Lives of Jakov Jasa Bararon
For this round of the ongoing 'Broaden Your Horizon' Lomography project, featuring artists from around the world, we have invited Igor Bararon to provide a contribution. Igor is a film artist born in Sarajevo and currently living and working in Vienna. The focus of his work is on documentary and short filmmaking. Igor is a story-teller. He is devoted to the cinematic construct because to him the temporal play of the medium has epic dimensions while remaining ultimately personal. He likes to show the process rather than being restricted to defining individual human experience.
"Poor rich old Europe", as he calls it, is very much on his radar in all his creative activities. So, too, in his current film and for the Horizon project.
The Lomography project seemed to present an exciting opportunity, being well-suited to incorporation in the progress of his current film project 'The Five Lives of Jakov Jasa Bararon', which tells the story of his father's life. It is a story about history as it unfolds through the different chapters of an authentic individual's intense and dramatic lifetime. A "horizon-wide logbook" of insights which bears the stamp of a single man who has mapped artificial space for himself out of private space in which to pursue his preoccupations.
Igor found the format of the Horizon images made it an interesting medium as it provides enough space to embrace the different parallel existences in his father's story. Parallel stories are captured in motion, in transit, and frozen on the two extremities of the image. These are the moments when the history of one life has just ended and the next story is yet to begin.
Igor says of himself that he has an obsession with controlling the composition when filming. And while Horizon photography endorses his love for the 'wider' it presents a challenge to him as he no longer has the option of controlling the process. With the Horizon camera something surprising always appears on the image.
Enjoy Igor Bararon’s Horizon feature
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| On Monday LadyLomography Ambassador Cristina Caprile found a hole in the front wall of her Lomography shop in Madrid and an empty cash register. Everything else in the shop was
still there and in-tact. The hole concerned, though,
was only 20cm x 20cm and Christina couldn't imagine how anybody could have got through it. Later the police explained to
her that there was a gang of thieves at loose who had a specially trained chimpanzee who could climb through little holes and take money from cash registers.
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| Contact the Lomography Project Team: contact@lomography.com |
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