Vintage Manual Typewriter
by Edward Fielding
Title
Vintage Manual Typewriter
Artist
Edward Fielding
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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The Old Work Horse...Before word processing... a vintage manual typewriter with crumpled paper. Fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding - www.edwardfielding.com
A typewriter is a mechanical or electro mechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed for keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing.
After their invention in the 1860s, typewriters quickly became indispensable tools for practically all writing other than personal correspondence. They were widely used by professional writers, in offices, and for business correspondence in private homes. By the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers had largely displaced typewriters in most of these uses.
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October 23rd, 2012
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Comments (3)
Joyce Ann Burton-Sousa
The old work horse, indeed. Great shot. The idea of throwing all that paper away when one makes a mistake--doesn't that seem weird?
Edward Fielding replied:
Thanks Joyce, yes the waste basket over flowing with discarded ideas is a visual reminder of the work involved required to create a well thought out piece of communication that seems quaint in today's world of tweets.