These photographs are largely credited with changing the way the world looked at AIDS (at least in the West). The compassion, love, loss, acceptance and understanding of the father for his sick and dying son changed the way people thought of the disease back in November 1990. This story shows the power, the true power of social documentary photography at its best.
Here is a time magazine story about these powerful, postive change causing photographs:
Time magazine story, behind the picture
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| Life magazine November 1990, by Therese Frare |
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| David Kirby on this deathbed, Ohio 1990 by Therese Frare |
