Creator Bio
Albert J. Winn
1947–2014
The work of American photographer Albert J. Winn was primarily autobiographical and addresses issues of gender and religious, ethnic, and sexual identity. In 1993 he received a National Endowment for the Arts/Western States Arts Federation Fellowship for his collection of photographs and stories, My Life Until, dealing with his life as a gay Jewish man living with AIDS. Winn’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress; the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Light Work (Syracuse University); and the Visual AIDS Archive, New York City.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Akedah
Akedah is one of a series of photographs made by Winn while he was undergoing treatment for AIDS. In each photograph, a Band-Aid covers the place on his body from which blood was taken or an injection…