There’s something hiding in everybody’s loft; forgotten, unloved, and obsolete. Shoved into a corner when the technology grew outdated and the next big thing arrived with more power, more memory, more everything. That collection of old mobile phones that you should really have donated to the charity helping developing countries, but which is actually waiting to go on eBay in 20 years’ time for what you hope will be a small fortune. Boxes of your favourite (and in no way illegally copied) games on 3.5 inch floppy disks, or 5.25 inch if you’re really old. The typewriter that made way for the word processor. Apple products with a combined retail value of a year’s salary, kept locked away and never spoken about like the deformed spawn of a shameful night with your cousin.
Jim Golden loves a bit of technostalgia. The still life and product photographer began his Relics of Technology project after picking up an old brick cellphone in Portland. Fascinated by both the retro form of old tech, its life cycle, and what of value may still be contained within it, his collection grew, and can now be seen, beautifully presented in picture and animation, and in a series of limited run prints.
Zip Discs
© Jim Golden 2014
Brick Phone
© Jim Golden 2014
VHS
© Jim Golden 2014
Rotary Phone
© Jim Golden 2014
Reel to Reel
© Jim Golden 2014
Viewmaster
© Jim Golden 2014
35mm Slide Caddy
© Jim Golden 2014
8 Inch Floppy
© Jim Golden 2014
Betamax
© Jim Golden 2014
