Escludere per l'AIDS? Escluso!

Item Overview

Title

Escludere per l'AIDS? Escluso!

Alternative title

To exclude because of AIDS? Excluded!

Photographer

Ammann, Daniel, 1972-

Place of Origin

[Switzerland]

Language

Italian

Collection

AIDS Posters Collection

Notes

Description

Shows a nude man floating in front of a triptych of stars, a moon, and a cloud with an angel. Below him is an assortment of items associated with gay culture (a book of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography, a Freddie Mercury album, a Keith Haring painting) as well as holiday decor and wrapped presents. The poster may represent the gifts of gay culture to the mainstream and argue against thinking of the gay community as separate and the only part of society that has to deal with AIDS. It also suggests the decimation of the gay community by AIDS, as represented by the three artists, each of whom died of AIDS.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item SZ009.

Physical Description

Dimensions

51 x 69 cm. (20 x 27 in.)

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

Switzerland

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease)--Switzerland
Homosexuality, Male
Haring, Keith
Marginality, Social
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Gay culture
Men
Mercury, Freddie