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Lola Flash

1959

United States

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Lola Flash (born 1959) is an American photographer whose work focuses on social, LGBT and feminist issues. An active participant in ACT UP during the time of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Flash was notably featured in the 1989 "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster. Flash's art, which is rooted in community advocacy, is in the permanent collections of (to name a few) the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of African American History and Culture, the Brooklyn Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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