Dispatched: The Photographic Summons of the Police Radio Antenna Tower
National Gallery of Art, West Building Located between 3rd and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001, Washington, DCBetween the late 1920s and the 1950s, thousands of municipalities across the United States installed one- and two-way police radio systems, each with a dedicated police radio antenna tower, which radically reshaped policing and the American landscape. This talk will focus on news photography and how reliance on this technology created a new genre of […]
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