Reg Albritton, Camden, Alabama mayor with a white hard hat, talks to black leaders at the Camden city limits as they march on the court house. The marchers are held in an effort to enforce a boycott to voter registration, Camden, Alabama.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: Associated Press stamp and date stamp.

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)

This object has the following keywords:

• Boycotts
• Camden
• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Male Portraits
• Marches
• Marches
• Racial Discrimination
• Reg Albritton
• Voter registration
• Voting Rights
• Voting Rights

• Image Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (16.83 x 24.13 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen