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2020, The Year In Pictures, The Year In Climate<\/em>, The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There have been many years that we have concluded the year with The Year In Pictures\u00a0<\/em>from The New York Times. 2020 would be the last year not to do so.<\/p>\n As the introduction says, “a year like no other.”<\/p>\n The introduction follows, with the link below to the full presentation in photography and text.<\/p>\n We long ago have noted, more than once, that we have run out of superlatives to describe the necessity of reading or looking at something. So we simply advise, go to the link, read and look.<\/p>\n This is a rare time when we have not posted the full presentation of photos and text here. It is so extensive that we are providing the introduction here and the link to the presentation.<\/p>\n You will also find there links to the past ten years of The Year In Pictures<\/em> and\u00a0The Decade In Pictures<\/em> that we posted last year. Few things can give perspective as a review of the above can.<\/p>\n Five years ago, the introduction at the end of 2015 started, “THIS was the year of the great unraveling”.<\/p>\n It was a mid-decade wake-up call.<\/p>\n This was also a centerpoint reference in the first installment of our series, The End Of Civilization As We Knew It<\/em>.<\/p>\n The series will continue. And our further reflection on the past year is yet to come. The great unraveling has continued and the great unraveling of 2020 isn’t under the best of scenarios going to arrive at a referential stopping point just yet.<\/p>\n In addition to\u00a0The Year In Pictures<\/em>, we have added\u00a0The Year In Climate<\/em> following it. There are photos and videos and text with links to numerous extraordinary articles throughout the year. We’ve focused on some of these and other articles from The Times<\/em> on this issue this year. Outstanding is the most modest word that comes to mind to describe the coverage on this issue this year.<\/p>\n We cover it as an additional singular issue because while the pandemic has been the story of the year, along with protests over inequality, economic crises (again, and ongoing for most people in the world) and the US presidential election (each of which are stories of the year and beyond, along with others), and while guaranteeing the basic needs and rights of all people, starting with children, remains the over-riding driver of history and imperative to address, if it were not for the unique impact of the stories of the year this year–the story of the year would\u00a0very likely\u00a0have been the climate and environmental crises–which everyone would likely have become alarmed by on a new level. So while it has certainly been in the mix with top stories, it has also gotten lost in them in impact in many ways. Therefore, we give it it’s own emphasis.<\/p>\n To start, here is the reflective stopping point for now in what has been the year of years in so many ways:<\/p>\n 2020: The Year In Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n By Dean Baquet, executive editor<\/em><\/p>\n Certain years are so eventful they are regarded as pivotal in history, years when wars and slavery ended and deep generational fissures burst into the open \u2014 1865, 1945 and 1968 among them. The year 2020 will certainly join this list. It will long be remembered and studied as a time when more than 1.5 million people globally died during a pandemic, racial unrest gripped the world, and democracy itself faced extraordinary tests.<\/p>\n The photographs in this collection capture those historic 12 months. Jeffrey Henson Scales, who edited The Year in Pictures with David Furst, said he had never felt such sweep and emotion from a single year\u2019s images \u2014 from the \u201cjoy and optimism\u201d of a New Year\u2019s Eve kiss in Times Square, to angry crowds on the streets of Hong Kong and in American cities, to scenes of painful debates over race and policing, to the \u201cseemingly countless graves and coffins across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n The impeachment of an American president culminated in early 2020. But two pictures taken in late January in Wuhan, China, are hints of a larger cataclysm to come. In one aerial shot, construction workers are building a giant hospital virtually overnight to handle hundreds of patients stricken with the coronavirus. The other looks like a still from a sci-fi film: A man dressed in black, wearing a white mask, lies dead on a city street; two emergency workers have stepped away from him and gaze at the viewer \u2014 all but their eyes hidden by face coverings and ghostly white protective suits.<\/p>\n Then the virus swept the world, recorded in indelible images. The scenes of people comforting beloved family members through glass and cellphones are heartbreaking. Some of the most haunting images are of emptiness. Still cities. Vacant streets of London and the Place de la Concorde. A desolate Munich subway station. Among the most disturbing is a photo of a refrigerated trailer set up as a makeshift morgue in Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n Punctuating these scenes are photographs of a tumultuous American election that even without the ravages of the virus would end up looming large in history books. As the year progresses, fueled by police shootings of young Black men, powerfully symbolic pictures of protests begin appearing. In May, a lone demonstrator carries an upside-down American flag past a burning liquor store in Minneapolis, in protest of the killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n In 2020, a year when all aspects of life seemed transformed, so was the process of making these photographs. Journalists are observers, not participants, but the most striking sense to emerge from interviews with the photographers who took these pictures \u2014 described by Mr. Henson Scales as the most diverse group in his more than a decade curating this annual compilation \u2014 was how much they too lived what they witnessed. No one could escape the virus and vitalness of 2020. It gave photographers fresh perspective. And they gave us unforgettable images from a historic year in our lives.<\/p>\n . . .<\/strong><\/p>\nA Year Like No Other<\/a><\/h1>\n
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