Peter hujar

Cynthia Carr conveys David Wojnarowicz’s spirit, and the energies he applied to becoming himself, loving a few people, and making a difference.

Lesser-known stories on the life, legacy & love of photographer Peter Hujar

By: Amy Haben Candy Darling a.k.a James Lawrence Slattery was born a woman, as far as I'm concerned. The childhood photographs reveal a gentle, feminine face that looks more like a girl with a short haircut

David Wojnarowicz in Dianne B. Fashion Shoot

Peter Hujar, Susan Sontag, 1975. Gelatin silver print, sheet (sight): 14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in. (37.9 × 37.9 cm) Image (sight): 14 11/16 × 14 3/4 in. (37.3 × 37.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.277. © The Peter Hujar Archive

The title of Hanya Yanagihara’s second work of fiction stands in almost comical contrast to its length: at 720 pages, it’s one of the biggest novels to be published this year. To this literal girth there has been added, since the book appeared in March, the metaphorical weight of several prestigious award nominations. Both the size of A Little Life and the impact it has had on readers and critics alike—a best seller, the book has received adulatory reviews in The New Yorker, The Atlantic…

Cruising Utopia brings together a selection of 20 photographs—both iconic and seldom seen—that Hujar took between 1966 and 1985, in a love letter to his city and to his community of artists and performers, poets and writers, strangers, lovers and friends.

Peter Schjeldahl writes about photographs at the crossroads of high art and low life.