André makes a phone call from the visitors’ room.

  • Mendel, Gideon
Date:
[1993]
Reference:
3314967i
Part of:
Ward.
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Contains: 2 images

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Credit

André makes a phone call from the visitors’ room. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

André sits in an armchair in the visitors' room for Broderip and Charles Bell wards, Middlesex Hospital, a blanket over his knees, making a phone call.

Publication/Creation

[London], [1993]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white print on paper ; image 44 x 29.6 cm, sheet 50.4 x 40.2 cm

Series

Lettering

Signed in pencil on the reverse: Gideon Mendel.

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. André 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 using a caption from Gideon Mendel's website: https://gideonmendel.com/the-ward/
Vintage print, contemporary with the original project.

References note

Mendel, G. (2017) The ward.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3314967i

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