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Wire Photography and Transatlantic Visual Culture

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DECEMBER 2022

  • Jonathan Dentler - UNIVERSITÉ PARIS NANTERRE, UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS

TOPIC : Media

PLACES : Europe - North America - Africa

PERIOD : The Consolidation of Mass Cultures

DOI : 10.35008/tracs-0116

ABSTRACT

Beginning in the 1920s, wire photography services used a technology similar to a fax machine to send news pictures across the Atlantic much faster than ever before. News-reading publics used such telecommunicated images to picture how infrastructure had reshaped the spatial relations of modern life.

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