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Are There Enough Photos of COVID-19 Death?

Vision Slightly Blurred

English - May 26, 2020 11:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★ - 38 ratings
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Harvard professor Sara 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, Philip Montgomery's work for the NYT, plus a visualization of the news by Josh Begley.

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