What’s on view in these photos by Alexei Hay is neither a completely depopulated New York nor its usual bustling self but something eerily stuck in between
Times Square, 11 a.m. on Monday, March 30. Photo: Alexei Hay How do you sum up something that’s so huge?” asks Alexei Hay. “One of the only answers is the emptiness, the thing that speaks to whatever everybody’s going through. The absence is more telling than taking a picture of anybody.” Not long after the citywide clampdown began, Hay, like a lot of photographers, realized this was a fleeting extraordinary moment, one he wanted to document in a grand way before it was gone.
Certainly their technique is a part of why these pictures are so thick with historical resonance. Looking at the photographs, made between March 24 and April 2, I thought of Paul Strand’s great 1915 photograph Wall Street, with its scattered tiny pedestrians against the sheer limestone façade of J.P. Morgan’s headquarters, or some of the great WPA pictures made by Berenice Abbott .
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