Carolyn Jones's vivid and life-affirming portraits capture people from all backgrounds -- children and grandmothers, men and women of all races -- living with HIV and AIDS.
It is estimated that over one million people in the United States would test positive for the Human Immune Virus, and many others are already suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A common-and harmful-misconception holds that AIDS is an instant death sentence but, in fact, testing positive for HIV does not mean immediate illness. Carolyn Jones has collaborated with George DeSipio, Jr., and Michael Liberatore (co-founders of the project), and the seventy-three people who volunteered to pose for these photographs in an inspiring effort to change the way we think about AIDS. Jones's compelling portraits have the power to profoundly alter perceptions about this disease, and about the way we all live and die. AIDS poses challenging questions that we must each grapple with, whether healthy or not. These captivating pictures illustrate the self-confidence and wisdom of ordinary people coping with an extraordinary fate, facing their mortality, questioning their priorities, and living life to the fullest. Their energy, courage, and dignity in the face of such adversity offer a vital lesson in how to embrace life, day by day. Their faces and their stories are proof that AIDS doesn't look like anyone -- it looks like, and ultimately is, all of us.
Design Industries Foundation for AIDS (DIFFA) is the sole recipient of the royalties from the sale of "Living Proof." For additional information regarding "Living Proof" and the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, please call DIFFA, (212) 727-3100.

All 64 episodes of the original 1960s series featuring the ghoulish goings-on of the Addams Family. Episodes are: 'The Addams Family Goes to School', 'Morticia and the Psychiatrist', 'Fester's Punctured Romance', 'Gomez, the Politician', 'The Addams Family Tree', 'Morticia Joins the Ladies League', 'Halloween With the Addams Family', 'Green-Eyed Gomez', 'The New Neighbours Meet the Addams Family', 'Wednesday Leaves Home', 'The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P.'s', 'Morticia, the Matchmaker', 'Lurch Learns to Dance', 'Art and the Addams Family', 'The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik', 'The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man', 'Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family', 'Uncle Fester's Illness', 'The Addams Family Splurges', 'Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family', 'The Addams Family in Court', 'Amnesia in the Addams Family', 'Thing Is Missing', 'Crisis in the Addams Family', 'Lurch and His Harpsichord', 'Morticia, the Breadwinner', 'The Addams Family and the Spacemen', 'My Son, the Chimp', 'Morticia's Favourite Charity', 'Progress and the Addams Family', 'Uncle Fester's Toupee', 'Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor', 'Lurch, the Teenage Idol', 'The Winning of Morticia Addams', 'My Fair Cousin Itt', 'Morticia's Romance (Part 1)', 'Morticia's Romance (Part 2)', 'Morticia Meets Royalty', 'Gomez, the People's Choice', 'Cousin Itt's Problem', 'Halloween - Addams Style', 'Morticia, the Writer', 'Morticia, the Sculptress', 'Gomez, the Reluctant Lover', 'Feud in the Addams Family', 'Gomez, the Cat Burglar', 'Portrait of Gomez', 'Morticia's Dilemma', 'Christmas With the Addams Family', 'Uncle Fester, Tycoon', 'Morticia and Gomez vs Fester and Grandmama', 'Fester Goes On a Diet', 'The Great Treasure Hunt', 'Ophelia Finds Romance', 'Pugsley's Allowance', 'Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump', 'Morticia, the Decorator', 'Ophelia Visits Morticia', 'Addams Cum Laude', 'Cat Addams', 'Lurch's Little Helper', 'The Addams Policy', 'Lurch's Grand Romance' and 'Ophelia's Career'.

A spiritually motivated book that has been in the process of being created through the experiences I have encountered throughout my entire life. This is a book that will inspire anyone who feels that their life is not what they bargained for, that life is indeed a continuous journey on the path towards the best that they can be. It is a book of optimism, hope, love and of the all encompassing love of God.

This book was conceived in anger and pain, raised in angst and revelation and completed in self-discovery and love. These poems are the children born out of my going over the edge, my recovery and my reinvention of myself, for myself, by myself.

I believe that we all go through challenges in our lives where all seems hopeless. We all have times when we see no way out of our situation. Before we can begin to deal with our challenges, we must first give validation to the emotions we are feeling. Don't deny your pain-make it work for you

It is hoped that in reading these poems, readers who have suffered through a personal tragedy will know that they are not alone, and that all is not lost. After much therapy and some deep soul searching, I can honestly say that I believe that God has a plan for each one of us. If we hold onto our faith and trust in Him, then we will have the strength to survive the challenges in our lives. I say this without reserve-there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Tobe Hooper scores and directs this slasher horror starring Neville Brand, Roberta Collins and Robert Englund. The film follows numerous people as they come up against the psychotic proprietor of a secluded hotel who keeps a pet crocodile with an insatiable appetite for human flesh...