The following is adapted from the introduction I wrote to the catalog of Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010, which will be shown for the first time in ...

The University of Rochester’s Rare Books and Special Collections department houses a collection of more than 8,000 AIDS education posters, building on a collection donated by Dr. Edward C.

Now, a new publication by RIT Press documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease ...

Meet the 85-year-old doctor responsible for the largest collection of AIDS posters and view 30 historic images from all over the world Dr. Edward Atwater didn't realize it then but he wasn't just ...

You do, too — don’t you?” — Bobbi Campbell, “AIDS Poster Boy” At no point did Bobbi Campbell ask for permission. In 1981, the registered nurse took pictures of his Kaposi sarcoma (KS ...

also reinforced some of the hierarchies and prejudices at the heart of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. From an early age, Ryan White was a poster child. In March 1973, before he had turned two years old ...

World AIDS Day 2023 Poster Drawing: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a serious health condition where people carry the transmissible HIV virus in their bodies. Given the seriousness ...

In the late 1980s, a global activist movement rose in response to the AIDS epidemic, which devastated the queer community and saw a slow government response that cost thousands of lives. At the time, ...

The film’s poster, which depicts a trio of bison toppling ... as HIV positive after losing his partner Peter Hujar to AIDS. In it, he recognized parallels between the cruel treatment of the ...

In 1983, AIDS hysteria was sweeping the country. This is the story of how a Denver conference empowered a generation—and helped shape a new era of advocacy. A group of marchers carry a ...

Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the ...