Peter Hujar
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First look at Ira Sach’s new biopic of legendary queer photographer PETER HUJAR starring Ben Wishaw
Queerguru hopes that the extraordinary queer photographer PETER HUJAR is looking down from wherever he is now, as his work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 80s. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with…
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The great queer photographer PETER HUJAR is celebrated in an exhibit and a film in 2025, 38 years after his death
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits which reflected his homosexual milieu. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with his lover, the political activist Jim Fouratt, he witnessed the Stonewall riots in the West Village. In early 1981, Hujar met the young artist David Wojnarowicz, and after a brief period…
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Peter Hujar Vintage – Uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects
What’s becoming a highly anticipated annual highlight at the Albert Merola Gallery in PTown is their remarkable exhibition of vintage photographs by the late great Peter Hujar. Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black and white portraits. and his work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but…
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PETER HUJAR “one of the major American photographers of the late twentieth century” back in PTown
Night and Day will be a gallery-wide curated exhibition including 19 artists at opening on July 2nd 2021 at Ptown’s Albert Merola Gallery. Although not exclusively LGBTQ artists, it will feature work by John Waters, Jack Pierson, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Armstrong, Stephen Bron, and Matías Alvial among others. The last two being young…
