ACT UP -Nicholas Nixon action

At a 1988 MoMA exhibition of Nicholas Nixon's photographs of people with AIDS, activists from ACT UP (Alexis Danzig and Ellen Neipris pictured here) sat in the gallery with photographs of people captioned as "living with" - not dying of - AIDS. The activists talked to viewers to offer an alternative perspective to the images of "AIDS victims" and handed out flyers that called for “no more pictures without context” and an end to photographs that displayed passive and ravaged individuals. It concluded with the demand "Stop looking at us, start listening to us",

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Filename: ACT UP -MoMA/Nicholas Nixon 2
Copyright: ©1988 t.l. litt
Image Size: 4830x3180 / 102.1MB; ACT UP AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power Nicholas Nixon Living With AIDS No More Pictures Without Context AIDS victims MoMA Alexis Danzig Ellen Neipris
Contained in galleries: ACT UP - Miscellaneous Demonstrations

At a 1988 MoMA exhibition of Nicholas Nixon's photographs of people with AIDS, activists from ACT UP (Alexis Danzig and Ellen Neipris pictured here) sat in the gallery with photographs of people captioned as "living with" - not dying of - AIDS. The activists talked to viewers to offer an alternative perspective to the images of "AIDS victims" and handed out flyers that called for “no more pictures without context” and an end to photographs that displayed passive and ravaged individuals. It concluded with the demand "Stop looking at us, start listening to us",