Portraits in Life and Death

The 1976 true 1st edition, in its much more elusive hardback. Tight and Near Fine to Fine, with no writing or markings of any kind internally. And in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a degree of foxing and soiling along the panel edges. Still though, handsome and very presentable but the jacket has taken on some wear along the edges. Quarto, Introduction by Susan Sontag. From Paul Thek to Ray Johnson, from May Wilson to Divine, Hujar's first-rate --and increasingly influential-- black-and-white portraits thruout

Portraits In Life And Death

Arts & Photography

Hujar, Peter

Photography & Video

Da Capo Press

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 recognized 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 artifact of post-Stonewall New York City.

Liveright

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987. He recorded the world in astonishing portraits of cows, sheep, and geese in the country, dogs in the studio, the sea, the city, and above all his fellow human beings, many of whom have since won fame: Susan Sontag, John Waters, Divine, William S. Borroughs, Candy Darling, Robert Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Paul Thek, and many men, in the nude, half-dressed, sleeping, posing, tumescent. People, animals, landscapes - Peter Hujar approached them all with great respect and a perfect sense of balance between near and far. His subjects face us with supremely dignified singularity, with loneliness at times, and at times in an aura of dauntless and "splendid isolation."

Peter Hujar: A Retrospective

Kozloff, Max

Visser, Hripsimé

Stahel, Urs

Amsterdam (Netherlands) Stedelijk Museum

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Distributed Art Pub Inc

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