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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Coronavirus and Stock Photography
Stock photography is tricky. Take, for example, the meaning and messaging of this "stop coronavirus" image in the midst of the pandemic.
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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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“Bernie’s Warren Problem” Really Media’s Gender Problem
The photo of Warren on the Edmund Pettus Bridge helps explain why, on the eve of Super Tuesday, everyone was talking about the old white guys.
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Faith Versus the Coronavirus
Where faith is the first line of defense against illness, we are watching appeals to divine intervention succumb to the untamed physics of COVID-19.
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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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Under MAGA, the Convergence of Militia and State
Those armed men prowling the Kentucky statehouse made one thing clear. Second amendment activism has fused with the militia movement and white supremacy.
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