Demonstration, Act up, Atlanta, 1988 – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Demonstration, Act up, Atlanta, 1988
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Two demonstrators share a kiss at an Atlanta protest staged by ACT UP, the AIDS activist group, in 1988. The public display was deliberately confrontational, since same-sex affection in public drew hostility at the time. Such kiss-ins and die-ins were part of the group's direct-action tactics, meant to press officials to respond to the epidemic and to bring attention to the many gay men who were dying. William Klein's photograph was later included in *Eyes of the Nation*, a 1997 survey of American visual history.
| Created / published | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1980-1990. |
| Notes | Copyright by William Klein. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1993:173 |
| Subjects | ACT UP (Organization)--People--Georgia--Atlanta--1980-1990. Demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta--1980-1990. Gay men--Georgia--Atlanta--1980-1990. Kissing--Georgia--Atlanta--1980-1990. AIDS (Disease)--1980-1990. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,465 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218723 |
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