social distancing ~ Au Sable Forks / Jay , NY (embiggenable) • iPhone
my coronavirus driving kit ~ gloves, wipes, mask (embiggenable) • iPhone
IT WOULD SEEM THAT MY/OUR LITTLE ATTEMPT to make pictures during what I call life in wartime is being taken up by all manner of picture makers. Hopefully, you can access this link, The World’s Great Photographers, Many Stuck Inside, Have Snapped, to a NY Times article about the same idea.
In any event, I have been making pictures which, if noted by the day they were made, are obviously pictures made during life during wartime. On the other hand, the pictures are much like the pictures I make during my regular lifetime. So, the question that arises in my head is, should I be trying to "step it up", re: including referents which are identifiable as specifically coronavirus quarantine related?
FYI, I have not come up with answer to that question.
Case in point, the LENSCRATCH link to their 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibition. With exception of the pictures made of toilet paper-fast becoming a coronavirus picture cliche-or of people with face-masks, most of the pother pictures could have been made at anytime. The same could be written about most of the pictures in the NY Times article. In both cases, we know when the pictures were made because of the titles of the exhibition / article. As is also the case with the CORONAVOGRAPGHY pictures.
To be sure, I don't believe that the lack of visual time-frame specificity is a failure of any kind. My only point is to bring attention to the fact that pictures-with the possible exceptions of propaganda and pornography-more often than not need words-iMo, the fewer the better-to impart, or at least hint at, the idea of meaning in / of a photograph.