Photographs of what is not in NYC. The notion of ruin in visual representations of New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, I propose a relationship between the modern notion of ruin and a set of specific photographic representations of New York City during the first two weeks of impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. The body of images analyzed is composed of a group of pictures publishe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Universidad Científica del Sur |
| Repositorio: | Revistas - Universidad Científica del Sur |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.cientifica.edu.pe:article/763 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.cientifica.edu.pe/index.php/desdeelsur/article/view/763 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nueva York Covid-19 The New York Times Cultura Visual imágenes fotografía ruinas Warburg Pirannesi Simmel arte New York City Covid-10 Visual Culture images photography ruins art |
| Sumario: | In this article, I propose a relationship between the modern notion of ruin and a set of specific photographic representations of New York City during the first two weeks of impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. The body of images analyzed is composed of a group of pictures published on the front page of The New York Times during March 2020. This set of pictures has been chosen as representative of a photographic genre that I call «pictures of what is not there», characterized by the depiction of city landmarks emptied of people as a direct consequence of the pandemic. To analyze the common aspects of the aforementioned genre and the depictions of ruins popularized in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries —the early modern period— I resort to Aby Warburg’s notion of «visual survivals'', identifying anachronistic cultural recurrences that are key to our reflection upon the present moment. |
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