Retro Music Lovers and Their Vinyl Collections: An Impressive Photo Cycle

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In the 21st century, technologies are developing so rapidly that generations of all kinds of gadgets replace each other, without lingering for a long time in our memory. True, there are also “the last of the Mohicans”, those who cannot imagine their lives without paper books and gramophone records. Eilon Paz talks about real "vinylophiles" in the Dust & Grooves photo project.

Eilon Paz worked on the creation of the photo cycle for six years. During this time, she visited not only various cities in America, but also outside the country to find vinyl collectors. As it turned out, there are many such enthusiastic music lovers. Eilon Paz photographed them against the background of tall shelves with records, the number of which breaks all possible records. The author of the project is sure that these people are doing a great job: they collect rarities and ensure their safety.

All collected photographs were published in a separate illustrated edition of 416 pages. The book is titled Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. The photographs capture the daily life of collectors: in one studio, records are sorted alphabetically, in another by cover color and arranged like a rainbow.

Eilon Paz speaks with love about those whom she met during the project: "They collect things, musical artifacts, over time it becomes not just a habit, but a real passion that changes the lives of these people." The photographer adds that each of the records becomes a "marker" of a certain stage in the life of collectors: looking at one, they remember their youth, looking at the second - addictions and tastes. Gradually, a fascinating story is formed about the path that each of these amazing music lovers had to go through.