I have a small collection of vintage typewriters among the assorted antique items I’ve collected over the years and they tend to show up in my photography from time to time. Here are some of my fine art photography that includes vintage typewriters.
This next one is intended to be a three images hung together. Works well as a set of canvas or metal prints.
Or I also have one that adds them together in one poster format. The off kilter effect is on purpose.
More typewriter photography:
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The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for “an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another.” But the first typewriter proven to have worked was built by the Italian Pellegrino Turri in 1808 for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano; unfortunately, we do not know what the machine looked like, but we do have specimens of letters written by the Countess on it.
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto paper. Typically one character is printed on each keypress. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing.