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Unknown Photographer
Anti-aircraft fire from a warship of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 58 rakes a Japanese bomber during an attack off Saipan. Flashes of light are ack-ack. The bomber was shot down., August 1944
Vintage wire photograph on paper
10 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (25.72 x 18.1 cm)
Creation Place:
Oceania
Technique:
Photography
Credit Line:
Restricted Gift of Michael Mattis, Judy Hochberg, and Daniel Mattis, in honor of Kathleen Stewart Howe
Accession Number:
P2019.21.722
Commentary
Diptych. U.S. Warship fights off Japanese Bomber: Heavy anti-aircraft fire from a warship of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 58 rakes a Japanese bomber during an attack on the Task Force off Saipan in mid-June. Flashes of light mark the ack-ack thrown against the bomber, which eventually was knocked down, August 1944.
Dimensions
Top image: 4 5/8 x 7 3/16 Bottom image: 5 1/8 x 7 3/16
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/8
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:
Antiaircraft Guns,
Bombers,
Downing planes,
Imperial Japanese Army Air Force,
Japanese Army,
Pacific Theater,
Saipan,
Task Force 58,
United States Navy,
Warships,
World War II
- Antiaircraft Guns
- Bombers
- Downing planes
- Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
- Japanese Army
- Pacific Theater
- Saipan
- Task Force 58
- United States Navy
- Warships
- World War II
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Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (25.72 x 18.1 cm)
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