`Allan' from the monologue `Sadness', 1980, 1988-90 [photographs and monologue chronicling the death from AIDS of Allan Booth] / by William Yang

PXD 745

fonds

1998 (from original photonegatives made 1980, 1988-1990)

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

152903

Photographs - 19 silver gelatin photoprints - image & monologue 50.5 x 40.5 cm., on mount 65.5 x 52 cm.

Portraits of Allan and monologue:
1-2. St Vincents Hospital, Oct 1988 (no.2 with friend Geoffrey)
3. Back to live in Bondi Junction, Jan 1989
4. After lunch, Waverley, Oct 1989
5-6. Allan moved in with Geoffrey at Surry Hills, Oct 1998
7. At Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, Feb 1990
8-11. St Vincents Hospital, Apr-May, 1990
12-14. ... they let him come home, Potts Point, Apr & Jul 1990
15-18. St Vincents Hospice, Darlinghurst, Jul 1990
19. Allan, Dec 1980
Note numbering refers to Library location numbers on reverse

Reference: Sadness / William Yang. St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1996 (pp.1-7)

Photographer's series title and number above image
Location, date, photographer's signature and monologue below image
Photographer's stamp on each image
1 of 20 (no.1) ; 1 of 6 (nos.2-19)

Diaries : a retrospective exhibition : 25 years of social, personal and landscape photography - State Library of New South Wales (26 January - 26 April, 1998)
Face to Face with HIV and AIDS - University Art Museum (University of Queensland)