Portraits in Life and Death
8 October 2024
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Description
A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, “was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of its era” (Holland Cotter, senior art critic of The New York Times). When Hujar passed away in 1987, his work was relatively unknown except for a small following. The importance and artistic mastery of Hujar’s photography, its tender gravity and intimacy, became recognised and canonical only after his death. The republication of this collection is composed of the original introduction by Susan Sontag and preceded by a new foreword by Benjamin Moser, with photographs presented in two sequences. A stirring ode to the flourishing downtown scene of the 1970s, this collection remains a deeply moving artefact of post-Stonewall New York City.
Reviews
"As his posthumous fame only increases, this tightly curated collection of photographs of Hujar’s friends and peers (Paul Thek, Anne Waldman, John Waters and Robert Wilson among them), paired with a haunting series of 1963 photographs of the dead in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, will remind fans of what makes him such a singular and original American artist." — Andrew Durbin, Frieze
"[A] stunning new edition… Sensuous and sensitive, this is a real masterwork." — Olivia Laing, The Observer
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