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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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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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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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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