Title:

After All These Years You Could Have Been Harboring a Killer

Creator:

AIDS Resource Center (Dallas, Tex.)

Date:

[ca. 1987]

Description:

This poster from a community outreach project, the AIDS Resource Center in Dallas, exploits the predominant public fear of AIDS. In the photograph, a man on a darkened urban street is unknowingly stalked by an anonymous specter representing the disease. When isolated from the text, the image elicits anxiety from the viewer--a man is threatened and there seems to be nothing to prevent an imminent attack. There is also an implicit connection between the urban setting and the disease. When read along with the headline, however, the poster announces that the viewer could be naively harboring an equally dangerous killer. The accusatory tone, implying individual responsibility, is in sharp contrast with the textual argument that the only way to fight AIDS is through "compassion, common sense, and information.". NOTE: Original is blurry.

Publisher:

AIDS Resource Center (Dallas, Tex.)

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the AIDS Resource Center (Dallas).

Genre:

Posters
Slides (photographs)

Subject:

HIV and Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A025237

Legacy ID:

VCBBFY

NLM ID:

101584655X77

Profiles Collection:

Visual Culture and Health Posters

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X77

Story Section:

HIV/AIDS