The Facts
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is presenting "Hujar:Contact," an exhibition of more than 110 contact sheets by photographer Peter Hujar. The show runs through October 25. Hujar produced 5,783 contact sheets in his lifetime, and the exhibition offers an intimate look at his process, including his annotations and the social context of his images. The contact sheets reveal Hujar's method of using a twin-lens 120mm camera and his personal markings to select frames.
The Signal
For collectors and curators, the exhibition provides rare insight into Hujar's working method and his role in documenting queer subcultures of 1970s New York. The contact sheets, with their annotations and outtakes, humanize the artist and his subjects, including figures like Candy Darling and David Wojnarowicz. This focus on process over final print underscores a growing interest in archival material and the artist's hand in contemporary photography.
- Artists: Peter Hujar
- People: Murray Belsky, Joseph Raffael, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, David Wojnarowicz
- Museums: The Morgan Library & Museum
- Locations: New York
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