Peter Hujar
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- Artwork Info
- About the Artist
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circa 1975
Gelatin silver print
Authenticated by Estate of Peter Hujar, wet stamp, signed by executor, Stephen Koch, au verso
Printed circa 1975 One of 5 known prints made by Hujar, no posthumous prints of this image extant -
Peter Hujar (born 1934) died of AIDS in 1987, leaving behind a complex and profound body of photographs. Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at the forefront of the cultural scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and early 80s, and he was enormously admired for his completely uncompromising attitude towards work and life. He was a consummate technician, and his portraits of people, animals, and landscapes, with their exquisite black-and-white tonalities, were extremely influential. Highly emotional yet stripped of excess, Hujar’s photographs are always beautiful, although rarely in a conventional way. His extraordinary first book, Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, was published in 1976, but his “difficult” personality and refusal to pander to the marketplace insured that it was one of the last publications during his lifetime.
Source: The Peter Hujar Archive