EYEBALL KICKS
Shots from a Revolution
“Desperation and insecurity.” That’s what Mark Richards says drove him to photograph the machines in Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers (text by John Alderman, Chronicle Books, May 2007). After a long freelance career shooting hot spots like Afghanistan in the 1980s for Time and Newsweek, Richards realized that photojournalism was dying, and went on a frantic search for something new.
He found it on a visit to the Computer History Museum in San Jose, Calif., where he was struck by the unintended beauty of early computers built in military-funded university labs. Using a digital camera wired ...
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