Casio CK200 — Boombox, Hamburg, 2009

Limited Edition – Fine Art Print

Available Sizes and Editions

(per motif and size, independent of finish)

45 × 30 cm (17.7 × 11.8 in)

Edition: 100 prints + 5 A.P.

75 × 50 cm (29.5 × 19.7 in)

Edition: 50 prints + 3 A.P.

105 × 75 cm (41.3 × 29.5 in)

Edition: 50 prints + 3 A.P.

(identical for all finish options)

Finish Options

1) Only Print – Fine Art Print

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta

1 cm white border

Unframed

Suitable for conservation framing

2) ArtBox – Aluminium White

Fine Art print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta

Mounted behind 2 mm acrylic glass

Aluminium ArtBox 50 mm (white)

Ready to hang

3) Passepartout Frame – White (Museum Glass)

Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta

1 cm white border, passepartout

White wooden frame

Museum glass (clear, low-reflection)

Ready to hang

Provenance & Authenticity

First publication: January 2026

Photography: Alfred Steffen

Location / Year: Hamburg, studio shot, September 2009

Work Group: Zeitgeist

Edition: Strictly limited fine art edition

For institutional, gallery or corporate acquisitions:

info@alfred-steffen.de

The Casio CK200 represents an independent, almost experimental expression of the boombox era: more compact than many of its contemporaries, technically precise, with a sober, functional design. The device forgoes demonstrative monumentality in favor of clear structure and controlled presence. Visible technology, logically organized, without decorative exaggeration.

All boomboxes were photographed to scale, frontally, and aligned on the same baseline. This consistently identical perspective does not neutralize individual differences; it makes them legible. Size becomes attitude, proportion becomes character, design becomes expression. The result is a visual system of comparability in which each device appears as an autonomous personality within a shared order.

The work is part of the series “Boombox – The Golden Years 1978–1983” within the Zeitgeist body of work. The series understands boomboxes as cultural markers of an era in which music left the private sphere and became a collective experience. Eight batteries meant autonomy. Weight meant presence. Sound meant identity.

The Casio CK200 is not a nostalgic relic. It stands for the functional side of technological self-empowerment—a tool positioned between mobility, control, and public efficacy, captured as a precise singular artifact of urban pop history.