Is Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Photograph an American ‘Guernica’?

Is Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Photograph an American ‘Guernica’?

Finding echoes of a famous politically-charged painting in Ryan Kelly’s prize-winning image.

via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/04/ryan-kellys-pulitzer-prize-winning-photograph-american-guernica.html

At first glance, the photograph is nearly impossible to make sense of visually or politically. Cars are not supposed to drive into pedestrians; fellow citizens are not supposed to kill each other over political differences. And there’s so much in the frame of the image – so many figures and forms crowded together, most only partially visible – that you can’t take it in all at once.