Santa Monica Beach recipient-women bound for the International Space

bound for the International Space Station

and a third became the basis of a 6-cent Eisenhower stamp

naturalist John Burroughs

' said Peter Magowan

" he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905

Santa Monica Beach recipient-women bound for the International SpaceThis stark image of Santa Monica State Beach in California is part of a collection of photos of once bustling locations that were rendered deserted by the global health crisis of 2020. Despite the emptiness or because of it, the locations took on a haunting beauty captured in The Times article, The Great Empty. During the height of the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, The Times sent dozens of photographers out to take images of popular public