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Friday, January 19th, 2018

The work of East Village photographer of the 1970’s PETER HUJAR is recognized in a new Exhibit


 

There is a new Exhibit of the work of PETER HUJAR a quintessential East Village photographer in the  1970’s and 1980’s whose stark black and white images beautifully captured a shifting generation who would soon be almost decimated by the AIDS pandemic, which would kill him too. 

The show, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, looks at the work the legend left behind, three decades after his death. It is composed of  140 photographs drawn from the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, the most comprehensive public collection of the artist’s work. Curated by Joel Smith, the exhibition adopts the traditional retrospective format while staying true to Hujar’s vision.

Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
January 26, 2018 through May 20, 2018

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York, NY 10016

 

Ethyl Eichelberger as Minnie the Maid, 1981

 

Gay Liberation Front poster image, 1969

 

Susan Sontag 1975

 

Candy Darling on Her Deathbed, 1973. Collection of Ronay and Richard Menschel

 

 

Self-Portrait Jumping, 1974

 

Photography © Peter Hujar Archive, LLC, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

 


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