Demonstration, Act up, Atlanta, 1988 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Men kissing during a demonstration set this Atlanta picture apart from many AIDS protests of the late 1980s, because public displays of affection between gay men were themselves a political statement. ACT UP, the direct-action group founded in New York in 1987, pressed for faster drug trials, lower prices and a stronger federal response to a disease that was killing thousands. Klein made the photograph in 1988, and it was later reprinted in a 1997 survey of American history. It shows how activists turned intimacy into protest in a city that is home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
| 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 | 4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185395 |
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