Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.
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1993.
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AIDS posters
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The German photographer Matthias Herrmann from the 1980s produced photographs of the male nude, often using his own body, "partially done as a response to the AIDS crisis -- born out of a need to show off a healthy, potent and not endangered gay male body" (Frist, loc. cit.)
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Matthias Herrmann
Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein
Sterischen AIDS-Hilfe
© Matthias Herrmann
1993
Real AIDS Grazer
Austria
01/04/2009
UkLW
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Reference
Wellcome Library no. 675214i
