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Manuscripts and Archives Division
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The collection consists of original videotapes and mastersof completed works documenting the grassroots response of artists and activists to the AIDS epidemic, 1985-2000. Much of the collection focuses on the protest actions ofACT UP and other activist organizations, including demonstrations and at the White House, Centers for DiseaseControl, the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, City Hall and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, President Bush's home in Maine,and at hospitals and pharmaeutical companies. There is also footage of political funerals and memorials, and planning and training sessions for activists. Also covered are International AIDS Conferences, government hearings, public forums, press conferences, and courtrooms.
The collection also includes oral history interviews with the founders and leaders of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and portraits and self-portraits documenting the struggles of people living with AIDS. In the latter category are over 50 camera original tapes made for the film Silverlake Life: The View From Here by Peter Friedman. Finally, the collection includes AIDS education and safe-sex videos, the New York City local access cable television series AIDS Community Television (1993-1994), ACT UP LIVE (1994-1996), GMHC Living With AIDS (1985-1996),and the video compilations shown at the Guggenheim Museum's "Fever In the Archive" exhibition (2000).
The collection includes the work of Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, Jay Corcoran, Peter Friedman, Stuart Gaffney, Carl Michael George, Scott Heron, Robert Hilferty,Jim Hubbard, Tom Joslin, Alexandra Juhasz, John R. Killacky, Patrick Moore, Catherine (Saalfield) Gund, EllenSpiro, Phil Tarley, James Wentzy, Phil Zwickler and others.
July. NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
