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Nelson’s Camera

This is Love

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Nelson's Last Video, Walk to the Hudson River

Nelson caught the magic of people who gave themselves permission to have fun during a terrible epidemic of AIDS. In 1989, Nelson quit his job at the music store to compile all his videos into a TV show for a public access channel in New York. A few days later, on July 4th, Nelson died from a heart attack. It's one of Fenton Bailey's favorite videos of Nelson.

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