John lying on a hospital bed, chatting.

  • Mendel, Gideon
Date:
[1993]
Reference:
3314980i
Part of:
Ward.
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John lying on a hospital bed, chatting. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In the foreground John lies on a hospital bed with his partner, talking, both are dressed in jeans and white t-shirts. In the background a nurse is walking down the corridor towards them.

Publication/Creation

[London], [1993]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white print on paper ; image 33.5 x 22.5 cm, sheet 30.2 x 40.2 cm

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Lettering

Signed in pencil on the reverse: Gideon Mendel.

References note

Mendel, G. (2017) The ward.

Notes

Gideon Mendel spent several weeks in 1993 photographing patients, their families and friends, in the Broderip and Charles Bell wards at Middlesex Hospital, London, as part of the Positive Lives project. The wards were among the few dedicated to AIDS. It was before the introduction of antiretroviral medication and the patients, many of whom were young gay men, faced a bleak and early death. The project captured life on the ward and the intimacy between the staff, the patients and their families. The hospital has since closed, but the former chapel reopened in 2016 as the Fitzrovia Chapel, where an exhibition of 12 photographs from the project was held leading up to World AIDS day in 2017.
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Vintage print, comtemporary with the original project.

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Copyright Gideon Mendel - All rights reserved.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3314980i

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