Portraits in Life and Death

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Portraits in Life and Death

Portraits in Life and Death

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781324092179
ISBN10 1324092173
Number Of Pages 100
Item Weight 1059 g
Product Dimensions 264 x 290 x 23 mm
Publisher / Reseller W W Norton & Co Ltd
Format hardback
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"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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Author's Bio

Peter Hujar was a photographer best known for his intimate portrait work, a legendary figure in New York’s downtown subculture of the 1970s and 80s. He was born in 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey, and died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987. Benjamin Moser was born in Houston, Texas, and lives in Utrecht. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and for Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize.

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