Pandemic photography has become a veritable cottage industry these last six (or is it seven) months. Getty Images has been their primary thoroughfare, the photo service now nearly exclusively peddling images of desolate American landscapes, shuttered businesses, and lines extending down the block. It’s been a slow, if steady, descent into madness for the platform, perhaps best illustrated by Sunday night’s person-less MTV Video Music Awards. Absent of a red carpet or awards hall, the only images that exist of the night are downright bonkers.
though? There wasn’t actually a “ceremony” last night. What transpired could best be described as an amalgamation of Toyota commercials in the vague shape of an awards ceremony. There’s wasn’t actually anything to take photographs of, except Cindy’s laptop charging cable, which is a necessity when streaming said awards ceremony. MTV certainly didn’t provide me with high-res photographs of its video stream.
And short of a few, ever-shrinking legal loopholes I exploit in my various blogs, Cindy and I can’t just rip the photographs we need from our television. And so laptops haunted by YUNGBLUD are photographed, and then sold to me, on Getty Images.But Cindy’s laptop was not the only photographic offering of last night’s VMAs. There were also, which is about as many levels of abstraction the VMAs or I can endure before the universe caves in on itself.
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