Sanyo M7830LU — 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 Sanyo M7830LU represents the technically balanced phase of the boombox era: powerful, solidly built, and designed for sustained use. Its design is functional and self-assured, without theatrical exaggeration. A clear frontal structure, logically organized controls, and a robust material presence define a device whose presence is not asserted, but inherent.

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 Sanyo M7830LU is not a nostalgic relic. It represents the reliable infrastructure of urban music culture—a tool for everyday use, the street, and public space, captured as a precise singular artifact of urban pop history.