{"id":4877,"date":"2022-02-26T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/seeing-80000-people-leave-the-city-was-ominous-and-fascinating-aaron-sterns-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T09:40:08","slug":"seeing-80000-people-leave-the-city-was-ominous-and-fascinating-aaron-sterns-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/seeing-80000-people-leave-the-city-was-ominous-and-fascinating-aaron-sterns-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Seeing 80,000 people leave the city was ominous, and fascinating\u2019: Aaron Stern\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York-based photographer on how he glimpsed the collapse of civilisation during Covid \u2013 in the window of a pizza place<\/p>\n

When Aaron Stern considers what inspires his work, he is reminded of the Leonard Cohen lyric, \u201cThere\u2019s a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\u201d In March 2020, as New York City began to shutter and fall silent, the photographer\u2019s busy schedule cleared. He had nothing to do but walk and shoot. \u201cSeeing 80,000 people <\/a>empty out of the city I\u2019ve called home for 21 years \u2013 it was ominous, and fascinating,\u201d he says. \u201cI was trying to find some humour, some lightness.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, he found it in the window of Arturo\u2019s, a pizza place in Lower Manhattan. \u201cThe fake relic brought the collapse of Rome to mind, and the fall of that civilisation and democracy, while the glamorous Joe DiMaggio<\/a> era that once embodied New York is also long gone,\u201d he says. \u201cHere I am, in this post-truth era, post-Capitol attacks, with this disease that\u2019s killing thousands, and I stumbled across this juxtaposition of two previous eras that have also ended. It captured just what I was thinking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe New York-based photographer on how he glimpsed the collapse of civilisation during Covid \u2013 in the window of a pizza place
\nWhen Aaron Stern considers what inspires his work, he is reminded of the Leonard Cohen lyric, \u201cThere\u2019s a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\u201d In March 2020, as New York City began to shutter and fall silent, the photographer\u2019s busy schedule cleared. He had nothing to do but walk and shoot. \u201cSeeing 80,000 people empty out of the city I\u2019ve called home for 21 years \u2013 it was ominous, and fascinating,\u201d he says. \u201cI was trying to find some humour, some lightness.\u201d
\nIn the end, he found it in the window of Arturo\u2019s, a pizza place in Lower Manhattan. \u201cThe fake relic brought the collapse of Rome to mind, and the fall of that civilisation and democracy, while the glamorous Joe DiMaggio era that once embodied New York is also long gone,\u201d he says. \u201cHere I am, in this post-truth era, post-Capitol attacks, with this disease that\u2019s killing thousands, and I stumbled across this juxtaposition of two previous eras that have also ended. It captured just what I was thinking about.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York-based photographer on how he glimpsed the collapse of civilisation during Covid \u2013 in the window of a pizza place When Aaron Stern considers what inspires his work, he is reminded of the Leonard Cohen lyric, \u201cThere\u2019s a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\u201d In March 2020, as New York …<\/p>\n

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