Between 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 documentary image-making.
About the presenter
Jason Hill is associate professor of modern and contemporary art and visual culture at the University of Delaware, and currently Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow (2024–2025) at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
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