Photographs from pandemics/epidemics?

[piffey]

I'm curious to see some photography from other pandemics/epidemics as Coronavirus hysteria is taking hold.

• Anything from as far back as the Spanish flu?
• Any photographers known from their work in this realm?
• Any "fine art" photography or non-journalist work shot during these sorts of things?

Thanks for letting me use you all to crowd source. Your combined photography knowledge beats Google every time.

 

[Ambro51]

Odd topic..

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Philadelphia historical archive has many from 1918/19.
Phil Forrest

 

[piffey]

Odd topic..

Agree, but I was thinking after seeing threads elsewhere on a photographer who photographed still births for years or others who photographed funerals that in light of the whole Coronavirus situation I was curious how others -- turning to photography as their way of interpreting, explaining and coping with the world -- photographed their own situations.

 

[B-9]

No more odd a topic than cats and cameras?

 

[Ambro51]

I taught my cat to do a full CLA on an Ltm Leica. I knew naming him Malcom Taylor would do the trick. Back to the OP topic, in a way, I’ve read coverage of the 1832 Chloera epidemic through a printers set of the Philadelphia Saturday courier, many similarities, tables of daily mortality, ideas of the cause (melons?), treatments....all very matter of fact except religious overtones appear suggesting modern man (1832} was being punished for advancing too fast.

 

[Henry]

I taught my cat to do a full CLA on an Ltm Leica. I knew naming him Malcom Taylor would do the trick. Back to the OP topic, in a way, I’ve read coverage of the 1832 Chloera epidemic through a printers set of the Philadelphia Saturday courier, many similarities, tables of daily mortality, ideas of the cause (melons?), treatments....all very matter of fact except religious overtones appear suggesting modern man (1832} was being punished for advancing too fast.

Oh, I think you see a taste of the “advance too fast” feelings in current reporting as well. How else should we interpret the breathless statements about how COVID-19 is an indictment of modern globalism, or global supply chains, or tourism, or whatever else the reporters find objectionable about the modern world.

People have always used tragedy to advance their own “conservative” or “regressive” or “nostalgic” ideals of why something didn’t happen in the past (ignoring that it did, and they just don’t remember).

 

[piffey]

A random one of the Seattle PD during the 1918 pandemic.