For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...
December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...
It’s recent enough to remain a lived memory, yet distant enough that it’s sometimes flattened into an archive. Poster House’s ...
Like wars and natural disasters, the AIDS epidemic spurred artists around the world to create posters designed to inspire unified action against a common enemy. Instead of messages inspiring citizens ...
Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...