Selecting 153 posters from 44 countries from more than 3,000 choices, the college has brought together a representative sampling of styles, messages and strategies that let viewers understand the challenges artists faced. To qualify, posters had to about prevention or tolerance.
In the show's single most wrenching and controversial poster, emaciated and dying AIDS sufferer David Kirby is embraced by his father in a photo that became part of a United Colors of Benetton advertising campaign. |
| Mexican Poster |
In China where AIDS is not well understood in vast rural areas, a one-word, one-image poster simple states "Stop AIDS."
And in several African countries like Kenya and Tanzania where gender equality is not yet established, posters show women asserting the need for condoms.
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A South Korean poster |
Some images require virtually no literacy like a 2007 Mexican poster depicting a colorfully dressed doll in the posture of death with a downturned mouth, black crosses for eyes and AIDS scrawled on a heart-shaped cap.
It is sobering to think that 25 years on this tragic disease is still endemic in parts of the world, and we seen to have lost the will to fight it.
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