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now rebloggable. fuck with me

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wake up babes my new obsession just dropped

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I invented your favorite thing

Gay sex?

Yup, that was me

thanks puki

It’s honestly my pleasure

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the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

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Never forget 🏳️‍🌈😔

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OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots

prismatic-bell

Notice how OP says “colorized?”

I want to remind you this was the eighties. THE EIGHTIES. Color cameras existed. Color VIDEO CAMERAS existed.

Someone put these in black and white to make them seem long ago and far away.

OP is returning them to their proper place in history: ONLY TWO GENERATIONS AGO.

zeldahime

that’s not fair to gideon mendel, the photographer who took those photos in 1993. he took them in black-and-white even though color cameras were available, yes, but not to “make them seem long ago and far away”. he was photographing in black-and-white so they would be taken seriously.

mendel is still documenting and lifting up the voices of people who live with hiv/aids in the project “through positive eyes”.

if mendel hadn’t taken these photographs, we wouldn’t have a record of these patients and the ends of their lives at all. it was extremely unusual for aids wards to let photographers in, and the patients took a risk in letting mendel photograph them and their loved ones.

rest in peace, andré, steven, and john.