Mar 23, 2023 · In 1973, Hujar photographed Candy Darling, an actress and Warhol muse, on her deathbed; white flowers visible on a tableside close to her. A year later, he photographed Fran Lebowitz at home, leaning upright in bed with a duvet covering her body; bare shoulders exposed.

Dec 7, 2023 · The shadow of the AIDS epidemic, especially during the '80s and '90s, tragically claimed the life of Peter Hujar. The picture underscores the intimate connection of the time between being gay and the constant specter of death.

Oct 8, 2024 · It’s hard to imagine many other $8.95 paperbacks with tattered, coffee-stained covers that would turn up on the Internet, half a century later, at more than a hundred times their original price....

Jun 28, 2016 · The "orgasmic man" photo (by Peter Hujar) shows that pleasure and pain can look / feel quite similar. As it relates to the book...given that Jude's life was so difficult (even the positive parts of his life were painful for him), the cover photo takes on a very beautiful meaning.

Apr 21, 2023 · Both novelists were inspired to use photographs for their book jackets after seeing them in galleries. Yanagihara saw Peter Hujar’s Orgasmic Man (1969); Laing saw Wolfgang Tillmans’s astro crusto (2012).

Apr 22, 2024 · One of the most striking images in Hujar’s collection – a masked corpse that appears to be laughing, and the cover image for the monograph – seems to make this point. Yet the reality presents a more complicated picture.

At the end of 1974 he had an exhibition at the Foto Gallery on 492 Broome St, alongside pictures by Christopher Makos, where he didn't sell any of his work, but according to a friend gained a book contract with Da Capo Press. The following months he …

A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar. The Strategist (nymag.com) • Best Christmas Gifts Under $200 Frieze • 2024 Gift Guide: '[Finally] reissued by Liveright... remind[s] fans of what makes [Hujar] such a singular and original American artist.' “I am moved by the purity of [Hujar’s] intentions....

Aug 4, 2022 · His most recognizable photograph today might be “Orgasmic Man” (1969), the cover of Hanya Yanagihara’s sensational, bestselling 2015 novel A Little Life, ambiguous in its depiction of pleasure...

Jan 29, 2018 · Peter Hujar, who died of AIDS -related pneumonia in 1987, at the age of fifty-three, was among the greatest of all American photographers and has had, by far, the most confusing reputation.