Two Takes on Terror or Resisting Being Terrorized

Sara Krulwich

The people with AIDS had very little time left and most were filled with fear. Fear of the disease. Fear of coming out. When someone would actually let me take their picture, it was an act of enormous generosity, and I always felt very grateful. I hope they could feel that, because being a photographer is so secondary to being the kind of person that subjects can trust.

Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis

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Jenny Holzer produces display text from one of her interviewees, Gary Garrels, who reflects:

It was this swelling of people together feeling the loss. Feeling the frustration. The terror.

Reflecting on AIDS in New York City: Jenny Holzer in Collaboration with Surface

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And there was the solidarity.

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