Old technology

This is a shot taken where I work. I manage a collection of visual resources for a university art history department, and this shot is of a drawer of 35mm slides that are used in lectures. Well, they used to be used in lectures. Most are now done with digital images and PowerPoint, so use of the slide collection is rapidly declining, particularly by students, but the academics are all getting very techy too.

As an aesthetic object, though, the slide collection is lovely. Drawers and drawers full of neatly filed slides and place marker cards.... sad, I know, but you can see why I love working there!