Trump’s COVID-19 Show in One Picture
Set in the White House hallway leading to the press briefing room, it serves as the perfect specimen of a spectacle that unspools for hours each night.
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New York’s AIDS Memorial Through the Lens of COVID-19
Todd Heisler's photo of the New York City AIDS Memorial in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis honors memory and design.
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How Could the Strongest Country in the World Fall So Far?
The grief and the sorrow of these medical workers for their fallen co-workers in the second photo is so raw, they can’t even look at the camera.
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The Grim Reaper
We were told repeatedly we were two weeks behind Italy, but denial and disbelief are powerful effects. A reflection on two haunting phots by Alex Majoli.
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The Elbow Move
There will be plenty of memories from the coronavirus crisis. But our bodies, if pray we stay well, will best remember the basic contortions.
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About Feeling Crazy Right Now
The photo isn't about eccentricity, it's about mental health. And it's about the symptoms we are all experiencing from the virus these days.
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What Should and Shouldn’t We Be Seeing?
This virus photo from a Belgium hospital has a "sensitive material" warning. But perhaps it's necessary to see--and not just for the obvious reason.
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Virus Meets Cat Gramming
As the coronavirus grips Washington and the nation, this cat photo by Alex Wroblewski is not just sweet. It offers a dose of emotional immunity.
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Drive-Up Confession and other Pandemic Improvisations
The drive-up church confession is just one of the creative adaptions being made on the fly as the coronovirus upsets the familiar rituals of life.
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The Coronoavirus and the World Atilt
Suddenly, the media is filled with images that situate the coronavirus into the most well-known backgrounds. This example from Pisa is striking.⠀
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Coronavirus: Looking at the Next Wave
What informs this photo and the fear it stirs is the knowledge that the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is not quite as far along as it is elsewhere.
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White House Flickr Exposes Trump’s Oval Office Coronavirus Speech
While the crisis calls for selflessness, what the photos reveal is an obsession with the camera, and Trump acting the role of first responder.
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As the Coronavirus Shutters Broadway
Photographers are using their symbolic gifts to process the loss of normality from the coronavirus. Here, the focus is on Broadway.
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Drawing on Contagion
This drawing by a young girl in Italy is a poignant illustration of the threat of coronavirus, and also the health of the planet. ⠀
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Saguaros and the Steely Monolith
It's a view you can instantly fall in love with–those saguaros, or giant cactus, sharing a "hug." That is, until you recognize the border wall.
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Tokyo 2020, Or Not
In terms of what photographs do, this split view of tourists above and the stadium below projects us five months into the Olympic future.
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Camouflage is a Common Marvel
Camouflage is a common marvel in the biological world. Whether the dress here is purposeful or not is a different question.
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Wedding Humor in the Age of Apocalypse
I noticed this picture from South Korea has been making the rounds again. It was taken as a (not-such-a-) joke photo at a wedding in Seoul in June 2015. At the time, the catalyst for the photo was the outbreak of the deadly MERS virus. Today, it strikes a...
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