Peter Fonda
October, 2010
Boom boxes are having a renaissance, with reissues of ghetto blasters (fitted with iPod hookups) being introduced to the Internet generation. In the new coffee-table book The Boombox Project ($25, Abrams Image), photog Lyle Owerko tells the whole story with crisp still lifes and an oral history of an era when graffiti and antigentrification ruled, with Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J. The foreword is by Spike Lee, naturally.
