At the peak of New York’s crisis, a health-care worker brought her camera to the I.C.U.
, Chaplin and Cunningham inhabit a twilight world that is celebrated by their fellow New Yorkers but only faintly seen. Cunningham, an admirer of the “Country Doctor” photographs that W. Eugene Smith took for, in 1948, wanted to document what was going on in the intensive-care units and got permission from the hospital to bring her camera to work. She photographed her friend over two long shifts in mid-April.
“When I wear a uniform, I put it on and take on my nurse self,” Cady Chaplin says. “But you lose your personal eccentricities, so I like to wear weird T-shirts underneath my scrubs, even if it’s just for myself.” A doctor holds a patient’s hand. Because visitors aren’t allowed in the I.C.U., such forms of “therapeutic touch” are among the only contact patients receive.
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