Ian lies in a hospital bed with a relative by his side.

  • Mendel, Gideon
Date:
[1993]
Reference:
3314981i
Part of:
Ward.
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Ian lies in a hospital bed with a relative by his side. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2023: An AIDS patient lies in hospital with a relative by his side.

Description

Ian is lying on a hospital bed, dressed but with his shirt open, raising his left hand. An older female relative sits by his side looking concerned. They are holding hands.

Publication/Creation

[London], [1993]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white print on paper ; image 27.7 x 22.5 cm, sheet 23.5 x 30 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. Ian was one of 4 men who agreed to be photographed. 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 3314981i

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