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Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV/AIDS exhibit
2023-02
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Title: Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV/AIDS exhibit
Dates: circa 1998-2003
Collection Number: 2023-02
Creator/Collector:
Rosyln Banish
Extent: 2.5 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV/AIDS is a photographic exhibit created by Rosyln Banish in 2003. Banish photographed
sixteen individuals from diverse backgrounds and interviewed them about their experiences with the disease. This collection
includes sixteen photographs, and eighteen text panels that tell the stories of the subjects Banish interviewed. It also includes
a book that was published in conjunction with the exhibit that provides further information about the impetus behind the project
and the full interviews with each subject.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV/AIDS exhibit. Collection Number: 2023-02. GLBT
Historical Society
Gift of Roslyn Banish, 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV/AIDS is a photographic exhibit created by Rosyln Banish in 2003. Banish photographed
sixteen individuals from diverse backgrounds and interviewed them about their experiences with the disease. This collection
includes sixteen photographs, and eighteen text panels that tell the stories of the subjects Banish interviewed. It also includes
a book that was published in conjunction with the exhibit that provides further information about the impetus behind the project
and the full interviews with each subject.
LGBTQ
AIDS (disease)
Photography
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)