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Release Date:
December 1, 2014
Original Title:
Selections from the Ektachrome Archive
Production Companies:
Visual AIDS
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 7
Lyle Ashton Harris' Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996 is a snapshot from 1986–1996, chronicling the moments—now memories—of this charged decade.This selection features over one hundred images taken by Harris from his extensive archive of Ektachrome photographs. In Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996, bedroom scenes and personal mementos punctuate public presentations and social gatherings, as a register of Harris' life during the height of the AIDS crisis and its impact. Moreover, this archive takes the temperature of America’s recent past and charts its radical epistemological shifts. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2014 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, a program of seven videos that bring together charged moments and personal memories amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS.
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