The Bonham Project Panel

Jon O'Neal, artist

born 1957

The Bonham Project Panel, 1993

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 975 x 717 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 38 3/8 x 28 1/4 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 45 1/4 x 35 x 0 3/4 in
Weight (Weight): 18 lbs

Credit line: Gift of the artist

Accession number: 1993.0285

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A physician and a photographer, KU graduate Jon O’Neal responded to the AIDS crisis with photographs of the areas of mens’ bodies that are examined to detect AIDS.
O’Neal began The Bonham Project in 1985, when he was a medical intern in San Antonio participating in one of the military’s first rounds of systematic tests for the AIDS virus. The men O’Neal examined were HIV positive but bore no outward signs of disease. His job was to look at their bodies for symptoms of AIDS.
That bodies could be HIV positive and have no symptoms that showed up in visual and tactile examination fascinated O’Neal and led him to this project. To make these photographs, O’Neal set up a makeshift photography studio in a local disco, the Bonham Exchange, where he could photograph the bodies of the men he had examined and of other men who volunteered.