Lyle Owerko: The Boombox Project

My post about the boombox pillow got me feeling all nostalgic, so I started looking around for more pictures of oversized boomboxes., I mean you can never have enough pictures of those to throw on flyers and such right?   After a bit of browsing I finally came across an artist called Lyle Owerko, who assembled a series of photographs called The Boombox Project, which depicts a “visual timeline of the era of the boombox”.  The series includes 15 photographs, and an excellent introduction that briefly explains the fascination that surrounds the boombox.  Here’s an excerp:

Initially, it became identified with certain segments of urban society, hence adopting epithetic nicknames, like ‘ghetto blaster’, and ‘jam box’.  But as the masses began to embrace the gargantuan conglomerations of electronics, lights and chrome plated gadgetry an inherent form of portable entertainment and expression was born.

The photos are definitely worth checking out, especially if you used to walk around with one of these.  For the full introduction, and complete set of boombox photographs visit his website.

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