Golden age of Silicon valley

American photographer Doug Menuez (Doug Menuez) for 15 years, sealing in the photos of the so-called "Golden age" of Silicon Valley. From 1985 to 2000, he had unlimited access to the leaders of the major IT companies in the world, among whom was Steve jobs. His archive has become one of the most complete Chronicles of the period of the American and technological history.

Despite such a high value, the negatives of Manusa for years remained unpublished, and largely because of a quarrel with jobs. However, in June 2014, they came together with the book "Fearless genius".

Menuez is traveling around the world and talks about what it was like to witness the dawn of the digital era. According to him, workers of the IT industry know little about its development: "the Number of people that don't know your history, is shocking," says Menuez.

Menuez hopes to change that: he believes that is depicted in the pictures people have created a rich and important culture, traces of which are now gone. According to him, in those years, Silicon Valley was focused on building technology that would fundamentally change the approach to education.

People ***** [hell] died, was in a psychiatric hospital, marriages broke up because people tried to achieve new things, which in itself was incredibly difficult.Doug Menuez, American photographer

TJournal chose some of the most interesting images from the papers published by Magnuson on its website.



Programmer Peter Ellie resting after an intense work prior to the CES show in Chicago, where John Scully will present the Apple Newton was one of the first PDAs


Seattle, Washington, 1999. Senior Vice President of Microsoft Steve Ballmer talks with a group of programmers in the headquarters of the company


Highway to Santa Cruz, California, 1987. Steve jobs returns with a picnic for employees on a rented school bus


Fremont, CA, 1990. John Scully is struggling with his shyness before meeting with the press


The Mountain View, California, 1995. President bill Clinton attended a charity evening to raise funds, organized by the Executive Directors of the Silicon valley


Cupertino, California, 1993. Programmer Sarah Clark kept his child at work, almost never leaving the building for two years, while the team was in a hurry to finish the software. She would pull down the shades in his office and then colleagues knew that it was naptime and that she is breast-feeding


Laguna Niguel, CA, 1992. Bill gates reports that no one should be paying the photographer more than $ 50


Steve jobs was a big fan of going barefoot, one day he threw her bare feet on the table the Director of Atari Joe Kinane


Aspen, Colorado, 1998. Billy joy, a legendary programmer who wrote the operating system Berkeley Unix, and then helped the Military Department of the USA with the TCP/IP stack, which allowed you to easily send and receive e-mail in case of nuclear war


Menlo Park, CA, 1987. Steve jobs pretends to be a normal person. "Jobs was rarely seen relaxed, he was always focused on a certain task," says Menuez


Sunnyvale, CA, 1990. Engineer at Lam Research labors to solve the problem of electrical connection in the Assembly machine for plasma etching


Silicon valley, California. Find tidy workplace is a challenge source: tjournal.ru

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