Over 100 award-winning international photographers.

Essays by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, Editor and Curator Nan Richardson, and noted global economist Jeffrey Sachs and his wife, public health specialist Sonia Erlich Sachs.

Written highlights of the book include essays by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, editor and curator Nan Richardson, and noted global economist Jeffrey Sachs. More than one hundred international photographers, including Genín Andradea, Mary Berridge, Alessandro Balteo, Nancy Burson, John Dugdale, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Aleksandr Glyadyelov, Nan Goldin, Gran Fury, Sunil Gupta, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Don McCullin, Gideon Mendel, James Nachtwey, Nicholas Nixon, Gilles Peress, Paolo Pellegrin, Richard Sawdon Smith, Oscar Sanchez Gómez, Gary Schneider, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Joao Silva, David Wojnarowicz, and others contributed the images that crystallize the moments of emotional devasation and inspriation this crisis has produced.

The book is also notable because it is an extraordinary contribution to a multi-faceted public information campaign. In addition to the Umbrage-published book, other project components include an HBO documentary film, a major traveling international exhibition, an education packet, a music CD, a Website, and a series of public service announcements. Generous sponsorship of this project was provided by the AOL Time Warner Foundation, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and others.

The legacy of this work, gathered from all corners of the globe, is a call to action and a challenge to each of us: to work toward a world without AIDS. In our world today, there are forty million people living with HIV/AIDS, forty million different stories of hardship, pain, and anger, but also of hope, courage, and resilience. Pandemic’s stirring and groundbreaking images from around the world bring us face-to-face with the epidemic, in work that has been used over the last 20 years to document and to educate, to agitate and protest, to salute friends lost and to mourn the deaths of family and strangers alike.

Pandemic provides the most comprehensive review of this work ever before assembled: Covering a broad range of approaches to the topic, from documentary to portraiture, this collection conveys the despair, anger, courage, and ultimately, hope, with which the photographic community has faced the AIDS pandemic.

Hardcover / $39.95 USD
10.5″ x 11.5″ / 256 pages
200 4-color and b&w images
June 2003
ISBN:978-1-8841671-71

Website price: $19.98

Exhibition Information:

Pandemic:Imaging AIDS presents stories of women and men around the world who live with the disease that has defined the last quarter century. The goal of the project is to create greater awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS and the challenges we must face in combating its spread. The exhibition not only illuminates the struggle, the tragedies, and triumphs against the epidemic, it will also reveal the range of responses to a disease that has thoroughly altered the way we look at life, the body, and personal relationships.

From documentary to artistic to political, the 124 works by 100 international artists representing fifty countries presented in this exhibition memorializes the unfathomable loss to the disease, yet also records how imaging AIDS has also galvanized change and provided both information and sustenance in the face of tragedy.

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EXHIBITION FACTS: 2003–2010
available for domestic and international tour

SPONSORED BY THE PFIZER FOUNDATION
Exhibition items to occupy approximately 150 linear feet:
- Twenty two 20×24” color and black-and-white photographs
framed in black wood frames with UV plexi
- Five 20×24” film panelswith stories and images from the
documentary film
- Three 20×24” text panels
- Captions in three languages on each photograph
- 6-8 week bookings
- Fee: $2,500 plus prorated shipping and insurance
- Artist and authors are available for panel discussions and
lectures
- 15 copies catalog/publication Pandemic: Facing AIDS
included with each booking
- Crates: 3 Total 3 @ 28x20x24.5”

For a preview of the exhibition please visit: http://www.pandemicfacingaids.org/en/flash/exhibitPreview/exhibit.adp.