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out of the holster
point..
.. and shoot
as easy as that
with such surprising results like this
photography done with a mobile phone
the technical simplicity
and many creative options of mobiles
resulted in a legion of followers
and a new global art movement
known as iPhoneography
what is really cool of all this
is joining in a tool
a mobile phone
the capactity of taking photos
the capactity of postproduce them
and having an immediate internet connection
to post them in a site or social net
More than iPhoneography
it's about mobile photography
why? because most mobile phones
now mimic iphone capabilities
about apps and connectivity
With a photographer's studio in Lleida
stablished more than ten years ago
Jordi Pou lives hooked to a camera
now he is a great supporter
of mobile phone photography
iphone allowed me to get back
to a way of doing street photography
shooting continuosly at any moment
everybody uses a mobile continuosly
looks like you're doing anything else
original was this one
I cropped it a little
and made it black and white
I have a focus control here
look if I close the area
and spot it on the woman
I have an effect that mimics
what can be done with a SLR camera
opening aperture
and now I post it
to my photo blog
press post
and it's done, posted
Inmediatly this photo was not only
seen in his photo blog
but also in La Panera Art Center
in Lleida
Jordi Pou curates this exhibition
showing iphoneography movement
with six international artists
presenting a new photograph daily
we decided to do it in a new way
holding the exhibition directly on internet
and then show and explain this
to the art center visitors
using an space inside it
to allow visitors to know what
is happening in the internet
showing it as art
La Panera exhibition ended yesterday
but the virtual gallery is still open
there you will see the different varietty
of genres and aesthetics of this photography movement
originally amateur but getting pro day by day
Majorca born but New York based
Sion Fullana is a paradigmatic example
Sion is one of the fathers of iphoneography movement
he has thousands of extraordinary quality iphone photos
he is being hired for magazines to do reports
just done a work about fashion in New York
he is doing lots of things
As happened with Polaroid camera
more than fifty years ago
iphoneography fever also has it's detractors
who not relay on a so basic mechanism
to do quality photography
Polaroid phenomenon is a clear antecedent on the claim
of spontaneity and immediacy as an artist value
Art Pope's as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton or Helmut Newton
ended up legitimazing the point and shoot aesthetic movement
Lately there was another curious movement
Lomography, born from Lomo russian cameras
Full auto, with aberrations and color changes
they created what is now happening againg with iphoneography
the movement, the communitty
groups of people using lomos joined
to share images and exhibit together
The same is happening today with iphoneography
a worldwide communitty using internet as nerve center
many specialized sites appear
international contests
and exhibitions in the world cultural capitals
like New York City and Berlin
Mobile phones are now a powerful new tool for art
a big window open to the world