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AIDS Memorial & AIDS Virgil Collection

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I began the photography for this collection of three gallery from August 2016 to January 2017 at The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle.

The sculpture was being assembled onsite before its opening to the public on WORLD AID DAY December 1, 2016.

"Steel columns for the monument’s 18-foot white canopy sculpture, fabricated in Argentina, was assembled onsite. Stone fabricators in Cold Spring, Minnesota produced the Memorial’s granite pavers, engraved artwork by visual artist Jenny Holzer.

This work includes selections from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. The Memorial also includes a central granite water fountain feature and benches that serve as the gateway to the new park.

It is located at the across the street from the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital, epicenter of the local epidemic, and also a block from the LGBT Community Center where ACT UP and other advocacy organizations first began.

100,000+ New Yorker's who have died from AIDS and offer the community a place to remember, reflect and learn.

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  • 01) Assembling the Memorial
    01) Assembling the Memorial
    171 images
    Photography for this gallery was from August 2016 to January 2017 at The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle. The architects for the Memorial are Mateo Paiva, Lily Lim and Esteban Erlich. from Studio ai. I began to photograph the 18-foot white canopy sculpture being assembled onsite by the various trade unions* before its opening to the public on WORLD AID DAY December 1, 2016. * Trade Unions : 1) Iron Workers Local 580, 2) Metal Refinishers And Painters Local 8A 28A, 3) BAC (Bricklayers and Allied Craft workers) Local 1 of NY,
  • 02) White Lattice Canopy Sculpture
    02) White Lattice Canopy Sculpture
    216 images
    The parts are greater than the whole, the beauty is that the individual close up of images of lattice sections are far more interesting than the sculpture as a whole. . It's like finding the tree with in the forest. The photographs in this series is the thematic use of looking at the abstract repetition, showing differences in perception of light and shadows across various times of day and types of weather as in Monet's haystack painting. Claude Monet, "the impressionist painter is known for his haystack painting. The underlying theme may be seen as the transience of light. This concept shows nuances of perception as seasons, time of day, and weather changes. The constant subject provided the basis from which comparisons could be made in changes of light across this nuanced series". The architects for the Memorial are Mateo Paiva, Lily Lim and Esteban Erlich. from Studio ai.
  • 03) Digital Sculpture Abstract
    03) Digital Sculpture Abstract
    237 images
    Photographic series of digital computer art from images of the AIDS Memorial white canopy sculpture in gallery # 2) AIDS Memorial Sculpture The image can be 2 to 6 times removed from the original . Two or more layers were used to enhance, alter, manipulate the image, creating an abstract surrealistic mirrored symmetry.
  • 04) AIDS Candlelight Virgil - World AIDS Day
    04) AIDS Candlelight Virgil - World...
    60 images
    AIDS Candlelight Vigil, remembrance of love ones who died of AIDS.

Joel Gordon Photograhy

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