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A set of nine 3.5 x 5" (9 x 13 cm) photographs. Each photo was developed on Kodak paper at a Thrifty chain location, using the Compucolor method of film processing. Dates on the backs of the photos variously give March, April, and July 1979 as development time frames. The photos are bright and crisp, though the back sides each show thin lines of foxing at the top and bottom edges. None of the photos are curved or bent.Ben F. Laposky's pioneering Oscillons of the early 1950s—credited as the first computer art—were created by photographing the electronic display of an oscilloscope. In subsequent decades, others undertook similar methods to produce their own oscilloscope art. For instance, the eighth issue of the artists' magazine Spirale contains examples by multiple artists, with accompanying essays by Laposky and others. Due to the ephemeral nature of oscilloscope imagery, and the lack of printing accessories for such devices, the photograph has been the primary material format for oscilloscope… Read More