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Are There Enough Photos of COVID-19 Death?
Harvard professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis raised the ire of some photojournalists by suggesting that there weren’t enough photos of COVID-19-relate...
Harvard professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis raised the ire of some photojournalists by suggesting that there weren’t enough photos of COVID-19-related death to create “mental images” of the breadth of the pandemic and the wake of destruction. In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah Jacobs and Allen Murabayashi discuss the reactions by Gary He, Lucas Jackson and Reading the Pictures, plus a visualization of the news by Josh Begley.
But wait there’s more! Is it unethical to use a telephoto lens to portray crowds during the pandemic? Jörg Colberg reacts to a photo of nurse Colby Hutson, Caitie McCabe’s FaceTime photos, The Joys of Deleting Photos, and New York Nico’s #BestNYPhotos
We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:
- What Images Will Define the COVID-19 Pandemic (via The Takeaway)
- The Photographic Phases of Depicting COVID-19
- Where Are the Photos of People Dying of Covid? (via NYT)
- Gary He Tweets
- Reading the Pictures Tweets
- Lucas Jackson Tweets
- Every coronavirus story on the front page of the NYT (@joshbegley)
- Colby Hutson’s Compassion (via Conscientious)
- These Photos Show How Easy it is to Create ‘Fake News’ with Photography (via PetaPixel)
- David Hobby Tweets
- Danny Kim’s Eye of the Storm (via TIME)
- Karen Cunningham’s A City Nurse (via New Yorker)
- Caitie McCabe’s FaceTime photo shoots
- The Joy of Deleting My Many Mediocre Photos
- @newyorknico’s #BestNYPhoto
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