TvOff

As a kid, I was fascinated by the patterns (and occasional lingering dot) that different TVs would produce in the instant when they were switched off. Stephan Tillmans has a series of photographs that capture that moment. I’m also just old enough to remember when the networks went off the air and into a test pattern at the end of the night, starting up early the next morning with the Star Spangled Banner…

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