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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Peter Hujar
October 23, 2005 - April 10, 2006
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Peter Hujar, one of the most important and influential New York photographers of the 1970s and 1980s. This is the first American museum exhibition devoted to Peter Hujar since 1990, an artist whose reputation has steadily grown since his death in 1987. On view from October 23, 2005 through April 10, 2006, it will include more than seventy photographs, most of which have never before been exhibited or reproduced.
The range of Hujar's subjects � studio portraits, nudes, landscapes, the city street, modern ruins, animals � will be presented in a monographic rather than chronological manner. Working exclusively in black and white, Hujar vividly documented a New York that has been all but lost to us today, most notably its streets, architecture, nightlife and demimonde. His portraits of well-known figures such as Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol and William Burroughs, but also of anonymous street people, circus and drag performers, are all highly regarded. In a sense, everything for Hujar was a portrait. Whether he was photographing a person, a dog, or a tree, his subject always seems to be posing for the camera, aware of being photographed, yet never self-conscious. |
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