He also created a follow-up from the era – late 1970s, early 1980s – when computers stopped being colourful and started wearing all beige. (Both galleries worth clicking through and clicking on + icons to zoom!) https://www.docubyte.com/works/i-am-a-computer/ …pic.twitter.com/CqThM7CTEH
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Beautiful detail from the second link: the keys being pressed on all the keyboards match what’s happening on the screen.
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Two more people doing fantastic computer photography:
@VanamoMedia, who documents common and rare gaming machines, and puts many of his photos in public domain. His book just came out! https://www.amazon.com/Game-Console-Photographic-History-Atari-dp-1593277431/dp/1593277431 …pic.twitter.com/VHPEvfafT2
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Link to many of his photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos …
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And Mark Richards, who photographed many computers of the CHM. His book Core Memory was just reissued after many years of absence – it’s a fantastic-looking coffee table gift: https://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/dp/0811854426 …pic.twitter.com/CcoKu3REPs
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Link to many of his photos: http://www.markrichards.com/Core_MemoryCollection/coreview/index.html …
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(Fun fact: Go to the Computer History Museum, enter the exhibit, turn right, and look at the huge photo on the wall. It’s attributed to Mark Richards, but it’s actually a photo of mine. That someone thought my work could be in the vicinity of his, felt like such a compliment.)
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It’s so hard to take photos of computers. There are always weird cables, plastics don’t photograph well, screens are a small nightmare. I am in awe of how good these photographers are, and their work has genuinely been an inspiration.
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For many, many years, I’d routinely travel to Apple Dot Com Slash PR Slash Products to download the latest hi-res product photography they had, and then study it. It was good. It was also probably all renders. The work of the people above is real – and much better.
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Nice! He's on Instagram too!
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