” Cunningham, an admirer of the “Country Doctor” photographs that W. Eugene Smith took for Life, in 1948, wanted to document what was going on in the intensive-care units and got permission from the hospital to bring her camera to work. She photographed her friend over two long shifts in mid-April.”
The visual politics of the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/trump-speaks-of-images-hes-never-seen-before-but-theyve-existed–we-just-refused-to-look/2020/04/09/89128fec-79c8-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html#comments-wrapper
World famous photographers shoot their lives in quarantine and are restricted to the confines of their own homes and neighborhoods as sets for their work in quarantine. Many are turning to Instagram as the platform to share these photos as the platform allows for people to access art digitally. Stephen Shore offers a particularly interesting … Read more
Hey, who would have known that way back in March this was an issue?
A 23-year-old woman originally from Wuhan created a graphic novel about the discrimination she faced and the wonderful qualities of the city itself before it became known for a disease. Part of the graphic novel is included in the link. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/30/823825436/the-wuhan-i-know-a-comic-about-the-city-behind-the-coronavirus-headlines?live=1&utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20200403&utm_term=4500285&utm_campaign=the-new-normal&utm_id=52308689&orgid=
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/story/2020-03-27/art-in-the-time-of-covid-19 In art, an industry heavily reliant on physical gatherings and spaces, COVID-19 presents creatives with particularly interesting challenges as physical encounters constitute a significant portion of profit for artists. As larger, non-profit museums are able to receive funding from grants and the government, contributing to arts was included in the recent $2 trillion stimulus … Read more
