These rare photos of Selma March put you in a heavy history.

James Barker is a technical photographer. When he was working in the Industrial Research Department of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, he suddenly received a phone call from a colleague: the university had raised emergency funds and sent three representatives to Selma, Alabama, expecting the third parade organized by Dr. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leaders' Meeting. After the violent route of the first parade named "Bloody Sunday" caused 17 marchers to be injured at the hands of state and local police, the organization will join the king and civil rights parade with tens of thousands of marchers from all over the country, and he will use weekends and holidays to conduct photographic research on people (such as migrant workers in Yakima or a reconstruction area in San Francisco) and be included in the candidate list. If he is chosen to take part in the parade, his colleagues tell him that he will fly to the hinterland of the south that night.

Who is Edmund Petes? Barker said that the curator of the African American History Museum listened to free songs recorded during the March from Selma to Montgomery in Selma. "I know the violence when I first tried to March, but of course, it's a long road." It all happened very quickly. The first thing I do is to go to the refrigerator to see if there is enough film. I was frantically operating, wondering what I could easily carry. I'm quick. Buck found out that he had been chosen by the school to go to Selma. In the process of preparing to go to Alabama, Buck carefully selected photographic equipment and optimized the simplicity of operation. He took a Leica with a medium-wide angle lens to take a close-up picture of the inside of the parade. He said: "My participation is more as an observer of participants than as a media person who can see what kind of stories photos can produce from the outside. Saturday before the parade,

"Buck and his colleagues arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, which will be their third attempt to March from Celma to Montgomery. Two volunteers, both black, drove all white people from the airport to Celma; During the whole parade, volunteers were sent to buses (and supplies) between Montgomery, Selma and various parade sites.

"When we were driving, I thought,' When does photography start?' I looked out from the back of the car and found a state trooper following us. I took out my camera and took pictures. The black driver said, "I hope you don't do that. We don't want anything to happen that will prompt them to stop us. " His wife or girlfriend said, "We are afraid of those who protect us. I thought, "God, that's a good statement. "This is a completely different world from the world where we grew up on the west coast.

Buck and his colleagues were taken to Brown Church in Selma, where a parade was being organized. When they arrived at the chapel, he began to take photos seriously and continued to take photos quietly in the rest of Alabama, from the day before the parade left Selma to the Wednesday when they arrived in Montgomery (the first and last day when Buck took part in the parade). "On Wednesday morning, I went out to take part in the parade," Buck said. According to the agreement between the organizers and the state government, the number of people marching in rural Alabama has been reduced to 300. As soon as I got off the bus, it began to rain cats and dogs. Thousands of people have joined the parade in the rain. "On Wednesday night, he took the last photo of the parade: a group of teenagers were singing." Buck said, "I really think the photos of the children are the highlight of everything he saw when he returned to Pule." Herman Barker immediately set about making the film. ""I looked at the contact list, "he said." I thought,' Did I really succeed? "Do I have anything of value?" For more than a week, these contact lists remained untouched until Buck decided to print 74 photos quickly and hang them in WSU's library. However, by that time, the school year has ended and most students have left the campus.

Over the years, these photos have spread all over the country and hung on the walls of churches and museums. Five years ago, these photos were sent to the Rosa Park Museum in Montgomery. A few years later, they caught the attention of an art gallery in new york in an exhibition in Arizona. In March this year, these photos will go to new york and be exhibited at the Cash Gallery.

Nearly 50 years passed in March. Barker said that he was famous for taking pictures of Eskimos in Alaska. He took the time to answer several questions from the Smithsonian ... When filming the history of the parade,

Is there any special method? What do you want to capture in the image? "

What I do, through all my work, is to try to draw out people's personalities and interactions, anything that may show who people's emotions are and their participation in each other.

This is the whole attempt. I didn't realize what to say, except "there are people involved in this" during the parade, someone stood by and glared at the marchers, and there were some photos of cars passing by. I want to cover up this hostility and let it show the environment. But I've been looking for someone. This has always been my primary goal.

My photos focus on individuals, and some of my photos make people understand information.

How did the experience in March offset your expectations for it? When we arrived at Brown Church, they said it was safest to stay there. How shocking. There is a feeling of almost utopia, where people have the same goal and are related to the parade. However, on this ring a few blocks away, there is a security problem.

When I was taken to Montgomery Church near the Capitol, I looked up and saw that the Capitol was surrounded by state police. I didn't leave the church because I didn't know what environmental safety was; Obviously, I will be treated as an outsider.

As a photographer, how did the people attending the parade react to your appearance?

I often work as a participant observer. In mid-March, I was there with my backpack on my back. Sometimes I chat with people, but there are other people taking pictures there.

In my life, something happened because of the situation I have been shooting, and I really can't fully explain it. Usually, I will take photos at the event. When people see the photos, they will say,' This is amazing, I didn't even know you were there.' I am 6 years old and 2 years old. It's amazing that I can walk in the crowd and shoot very close and intimate, but they don't seem to know where I am.

I work hard and quickly, capturing moments of interaction and expression, but at the same time, I deliberately avoid eye contact. If you don't make eye contact, people don't seem to realize your existence.

The whole process is just taking pictures in the crowd without any interruption.

Decades after the film Selma was released, there have been more contemporary demonstrations in the United States to deal with the injustice recently imposed on the black community. In these photos, what can we learn from the present review?

Two years ago, I decided to reprint this exhibition, because everyone knew that the original prints had considerable historical value, so we decided not to show them again. I was reprinting this exhibition. At that time, the Supreme Court's ruling overturned a major part of the Voter's Rights Act, and all States, including Alabama, immediately revised the law, which was actually a suppression of voters.

All I can do is try to integrate human factors into this person. They are not anonymous people. They took part in many demonstrations. Just trying to humanize the whole thing