{"title":"Pandemic Photography: Images from COVID-19 in India","authors":"P. Nayar","doi":"10.1080/17514517.2022.2040166","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay examines several photographs taken during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2021. It argues that the photographs capture an “atmo-terror” (terror from the air). The paper records the evolution of atmo-technics: alongside the dehumanization of the patient/sufferer, acts of resilience were reported and recorded. A “civil contract” of photography may be inferred from them.","PeriodicalId":42826,"journal":{"name":"Photography and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Photography and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2022.2040166","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This essay examines several photographs taken during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2021. It argues that the photographs capture an “atmo-terror” (terror from the air). The paper records the evolution of atmo-technics: alongside the dehumanization of the patient/sufferer, acts of resilience were reported and recorded. A “civil contract” of photography may be inferred from them.