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Reviewed this week @guardian — 'Aaron Stern: Madam, Nurses Run' is a ghostly portrait of New York in a time of pandemic and post-truth, published by Horizon Avenue.⁠ ⁠ For many years New York–based photographer Aaron Stern resisted taking pictures there—that is until the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. Over the course of 2020, he walked hundreds of miles, in no particular direction, trying to capture the haunting character of his city and the people in it throughout the crisis. The resulting 59 images in the photographic artist's book 'Madam, Nurses Run' add up to a poetic visual statement on reckoning with hardship and loss in a post-truth world.⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Poetry by @pinestereo⁠ Production by @tbradway⁠ ⁠ #aaronstern #photobook #madamnursesrun @aaronstern__⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CakrEv7JMJ5/?utm_medium=tumblr

Attention please! Grace Holliday selects the most iconic photo from NYC-based photographer Aaron Sterns's new book, 'Madam, Nurses Run,' for this special feature @guardian ⁠ ⁠ Follow linkinbio to hear how Stern glimpsed the collapse of civilization during Covid – in the window of a pizza place.⁠ ⁠ "When Aaron Stern considers what inspires his work, he is reminded of the Leonard Cohen lyric, 'There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in,'" Holliday writes. "In March 2020, as New York City began to shutter and fall silent, the photographer’s busy schedule cleared. He had nothing to do but walk and shoot. 'Seeing 80,000 people empty out of the city I’ve called home for 21 years – it was ominous, and fascinating,' he says. 'I was trying to find some humor, some lightness.'⁠ ⁠ In the end, he found it in the window of Arturo’s, a pizza place in Lower Manhattan. 'The fake relic brought the collapse of Rome to mind, and the fall of that civilization and democracy, while the glamorous Joe DiMaggio era that once embodied New York is also long gone,' he says. 'Here I am, in this post-truth era, post-Capitol attacks, with this disease that’s killing thousands, and I stumbled across this juxtaposition of two previous eras that have also ended. It captured just what I was thinking about.'"⁠ ⁠ Even eerier with the news of Ukraine today.⁠ ⁠ @aaronstern__ #aaronstern @pinestereo @tbradway #photobook #madamnursesrun #nycphotobook #arturos #arturospizzanyc⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CakTnwTFyop/?utm_medium=tumblr