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Two Hungarian casualties lie in a snow-covered street after a border clash at Munkacs, between Hungarian and Czecho-Slovak soldiers, January 1939
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper

Creation Place: Europe
Technique: Photography
Credit Line: Restricted Gift of Michael Mattis, Judy Hochberg, and Daniel Mattis, in honor of Kathleen Stewart Howe
Accession Number: P2019.21.166

Commentary
Two Hungarian casualties lie in a snow-covered street after a border clash at Munkacs, Hungary on January 6 between Hungarian and Czecho-Slovak soldiers. Friction between the armed forces of the two nations has continued spasmodically for some weeks along the border, January 1939. NOTE: Munkacs changed hands between Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The town belonged to Hungary until 1920, to Czechoslovakia from 1920–1938, and again to Hungary from 1938–1945. It is in modern-day Ukraine.

Materials
Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

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