"Let the record show . . .": art activism and the AIDS epidemic.

Those who review the vast historical archive of the AIDS epidemic will find there a wealth of visual images that testify to the events, messages, meanings, strategies, and emotions of the past 25 years. In some remarkable cases, these images, with a little effort on the part of the viewer, are able to produce analyses and suggest actions in response to the epidemic that are no less relevant now than they were at the time of their creation. This is the case with the image on the cover of this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health.