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Edited by Donald Albrecht, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, and William M. Valenti M.D.
As early as 1981, the CDC first reported the illness that later would be named HIV/AIDS. Since then, "an estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses," writes Donald Albrecht in the introduction to Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Albrecht edited the book with Jessica Lacher-Feldman and William M. Valenti M.D., (hardcover, 232 pages, 187 illustrations). This publication documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS educational posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or cure. Lacher- Feldman describes the book as "a testament to the significance of the collection itself, as well as a tribute to the work of collector, the late Dr. Edward Atwater, who had the vision to build this vast collection to document the global AIDS pandemic as a social, cultural, medical, and artistic phenomenon."
"Up Against the Wall serves both as the exhibition catalog for the upcoming show at the Memorial Art Gallery in March 2022. The book describes and talks about the collection in University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries as a whole, which is over 8,000 posters strong," said Lacher-Feldman, exhibitions and special projects manager, and is the curator of record for the AIDS Education Posters Collection. Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster accompanies an exhibition of AIDS education posters at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, March 6-June 19, 2022.
https://www.rit.edu/press/against-wall
