The central figure in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse #17 is probably some really famous and important basketball player.

Bummer we have no way of figuring out who it is or what team he plays for by just looking. If you do a little research you’ll find out that it’s the Spurs but that’s pretty irrelevant to the work tbh.

This still of an NBA basketball game, taken what looks like several decades ago based on the length of this man’s shorts (topic: fashion alerts), doesn’t exactly scream Bible stories, but the title would indicate otherwise. Upon first interpretation you might think that this is a Jesus-is-our-team-captain metaphor. It’s not. It’s kind of a long story but Pfeiffer’s series "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" all started with pictures of Marilyn Monroe with Marilyn Monroe photoshopped out, leaving a really misplaced, adoring crowd. Soon after Pfeiffer tired of that, he made the jump to basketball stills (and whatta jump that was). His goal was essentially to make the picture as confusing as possible by eliminating crucial parts, which is how we got our Jesus-esque player here.

The title, which was inspired by the woodcuts of the great Albrecht Durer and also by God, references the part in the New Testament when the world was going to end. The horsemen were literally the people who went around announcing the end of the world. If you think this is a dramatic title for a picture of a basketball game, then you would be half right. On the one hand, comparing a basketball game to the end of the world is a bit much. But on the other hand, this picture represents the fact that everything can be reduced to a photograph, which we know now more than ever with society’s obsession with the Facebook and the Instagram. Millennials = the end of the world? you decide.