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Exhibit Uncovers the 5,783 Contact Sheets Photographer Peter Hujar Left Behind

PetaPixel·Pesala Bandara·about 1 month ago
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Candy Darling in room 1423, Cabrini HealthCare Center, 1973 | The Morgan Library & Museum, Peter Hujar Collection, New York purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund, 2013, Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Ortuzar, New York; © The Peter Hujar Archive/ Artists Rights Society (ARS). An upcoming exhibition will present thousands of contact sheets and archival materials to show how photographer Peter Hujar developed his work over several decades. Titled Hujar: Contact , the exhibition will be on view at at The Morgan Library & Museum from May 22 through October 25, 2026, and will explore the life, times, and creative evolution of Hujar . It will include more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements drawn from the Morgan’s collection of his work. In 2013, the Morgan acquired the 5,783 black-and-white contact sheets Hujar had at the time of his death, along with two notebooks, or “job books,” in which he recorded photographic assignments and personal projects from 1954 to 1985.…

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