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1989 - The photo collection that changed the face of AIDS - David Kirby (Part 1)

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Following the LIFE publication, the Kirby family allowed the clothing company United Colors of Benetton to use the image in an 1992 advertising campaign, feeling that its story would reach a worldwide audience. 

Photo credit: Therese Frare / LIFE Magazine

A father comforts his son, David Kirby, on his deathbed in Ohio, 1989. Widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS.


After a three-year struggle against AIDS and its social stigmas, David Kirby could fight no longer.


His sister shows a picture of young David Kirby.


David Kirby died in April 1990, only 32 years old, seven months before the photo was published.



A nurse at Pater Noster House in Ohio holds David Kirby's hands not long before he died, spring 1990.



David Kirby, Ohio, 1990.
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