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Unknown Photographer
Princeton University student Philip Hocker was attacked by a white man at a busy Jackson intersection. He holds the cross that was burned at the intersection an hour after the attack., August 16, 1964
Vintage wire photograph on paper
5 5/8 x 8 1/16 in. (14.29 x 20.48 cm)
Creation Place:
North America
Technique:
Photography
Credit Line:
Restricted gift of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg in honor of Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Accession Number:
P2021.13.648
Commentary
Rights Worker Beaten: Philip Hocker, 20, a Princeton University student from Corning, New York, was attacked by an unidentified white man Saturday night at a busy Jackson intersection. The assailant slammed Hocker in the top of the head with a baseball bat and again across his shoulder, then he fled. Hocket holds the cross that was burned at the intersection an hour after the attack, Mississippi.
Marks
On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: manuscript title.
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)
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
Activists,
Assaults,
Civil Rights Movements,
Cross burning,
Injustice,
Jackson,
Philip Hocker,
Princeton University,
Racial Discrimination
- Activists
- Assaults
- Civil Rights Movements
- Cross burning
- Injustice
- Jackson
- Philip Hocker
- Princeton University
- Racial Discrimination
Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 8 1/16 in. (14.29 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
- Sheet Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 8 3/16 in. (14.61 x 20.8 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
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