Peter Hujar's Contact Sheets: Record-Keeping and Ephemeral Proof
Submitted by Olivia McCall on Thu, 10/19/2023 - 9:00am
Ten years ago, the Morgan’s Department of Photography made a landmark acquisition: Peter Hujar’s papers, 100 photographic prints, and 5,783 black-and-white contact sheets. The contact sheets are of great importance: they span the artist’s career from 1955 until his death of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987, and index nearly every black-and-white exposure that he made.