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Ghost Ads

March 31, 2005 › Sandy McMurray | comment

shapes.jpgIn 1986, New York photographer, Frank Jump, was diagnosed HIV positive. His response was a feverish outpouring of photographs and music. Part of that output is the Fading Ad Campaign, an online gallery of vintage, hand-painted ads, or what's left of them on the brickwork of New York buildings. It's a lovely collection of images that capture almost lost custom typography and a dying artform. Jump sees the images as a metaphor for his life with HIV. Like him, he says, they have lived long past when they were expected to. Jump, still shooting today, has captured some ad images from Canada as well. I love these images online, because it's a great example of a new media preserving an old one.

March 31, 2005 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item

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