Square octavo. viii, 159pp. Photographs by Nicholas Nixon capture the humanity and horror of the AIDS Crisis in an intimate and unflinching series of portraits. The collection of images here marks a turn in Nixon's artistic program; having risen to prominence in the 1970s as part of the "New topographics" school, which mainly used landscapes and architecture to comment on the state of America, Nixon here renders the human face with the same despairing objectivity. His wife Bebe's text transposes letters and anecdotes from families and friends of the afflicted. A profound perspective on the Crisis among Boston residents. Bound in black cloth-covered boards with title in white. Light soiling to covers, else near fine in very good dust wrapper, this showing slight creasing and some soiling to interior.