Photography during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met",[a] is the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Its permanent collection contains over two million works,[1] divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.[
Note: A must-see while visiting NYC
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“If I were asked to define photography in a few words, I would say that it is a fossil of light and time.”
— Daido Moriyama
Historical image, shot in July 2020. The COVID pandemic is in full swing and has a devastating economic impact throughout Thailand. The picture shows the Patpong nightlife and night market area in Silom, Bangkok, at that time.
Bar employees await tourists. There aren't any tourists. No customers means zero income. There is no social safety net. These are terrible times. Stressful times for many.
According to Google, contribution of travel and tourism to GDP (% of GDP) for Thailand was 21.9% in 2019.
Patpong usually attracts large crowds, and has served as the backdrop to many movies (The Deer Hunter; Baraka; Miss Saigon) as well as books (such as Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins, and the creepy but excellent crime novel The Queen Of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan).
With the end of the pandemic, and tourists now returning to the country in large numbers, the economic desperation is easing. But many people remain deeply in debt throughout Thailand. It will probably take years to return to some kind of normal for many people.
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Denkmalgeschützter Rutschturm "Toboggan" im Wurstelprater in Wien in Zeiten des Coronavirus-Lockdowns
Listed slide tower in the Wurstelprater amusement park in Vienna in the time of the coronavirus lockdown
Gemäß einer urbanen Legende, die seit den 1950er Jahren im Umlauf ist, soll zu jener Zeit eine rutschende Frau von einem Bruchstück der Planken aufgespießt worden und ihren Verletzungen erlegen sein. Zu diesem Thema unbedingt folgenden Musikbeitrag anhören! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvnP6bOSEc
An urban legend in circulation since the 1950s says that one day a sliding woman was speared and killed by a loosened piece of the boards. Ernst Molden, Willi Resetarits, Walther Soyka and Hannes Wirth refer to this issue in this wonderful song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvnP6bOSEc
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toboggan_(Wurstelprater)
Is the worst over - covid-wise? At least here, in the UK? Can we relax and sit back for a while? Not frantically booking future holidays in a kind of frenzy of self-rewarding, but breathing in and out deeply, thinking of what makes life worthwhile - here and everywhere else? Now, when our own lives are no longer threatened, can we begin to mourn the about 130 000 people who died in the UK from the pandemic?
As this sightless 2020 started, it could have looked like this in some part of the world. The pandemic served as an inspiration for the purpose, so I designed and made this post-apocalyptic scenario as Corona concept. I wish everyone a better 2021.
As always, thank you so much for your visits, comments and faves!
The fashion colour for the summer season of 2020 will be red! Alternatively, how to cope with the absurdities of the situation.
Elegant Terns
Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary, Alameda, California
According to Cornell, Elegant Terns (that is indeed their name) are found on the Pacific Coast, but nest on only two islands in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico). I was fortunate to come upon a large flock of them visiting the San Francisco Bay. My first sighting of these very playful terns.
From my India travel archive (2015 )....An incredibly overloaded lorry ( truck ) on a highway......
A very sad pandemic situation that have gone terribly out of control in India with the latest and very virulent mutant Covid virus strains. Just like this image it is becoming an ever heavy burden for the Indian Health system. Hopefully with the help from other countries supplying oxygen tanks and ventilators the dire situation will improve not only for the sake of the Indians but for the whole of humanity.
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This Scaly-breasted Munia was seen during the first year of the pandemic (November 2020). Seen along the Meadowbrook at the Los Angeles County Arboretum - an "escape" during troubled times.
The political advisors with the "unconventional" ideas, those who would think "outside the box". At the begin of the Pandemic, for a couple of days, if not weeks, did you play with the idea of experimenting with achieving herd immunity via the "natural" way? We, at least here in the UK, we need an inquiry. We have been asking questions for a year now. Now, when vaccination is going strong and we can see more clearly how the future might look like, it is time to get to the bottom of things.