
Peter HujarHorse in Harness (I)

Peter HujarWill: Char-Pei (I)

Peter HujarSheep, Pennsylvania

Peter HujarBacklit Cow

Peter HujarClarissa Dalrymple’s Dog, Kirsten

Peter HujarHorse, Warwick, R.I.

Peter HujarButch and Buster

To Hujar, who grew up on a farm, animals and people were of equal interest. His photographs of dogs, horses, and cows seem to convey a mutual recognition between photographer and subject, a sort of calm acknowledgement.
To Hujar, who grew up on a farm, animals and people were of equal interest. His photographs of dogs, horses, and cows seem to convey a mutual recognition between photographer and subject, a sort of calm acknowledgement.
Hujar’s sometimes playful, often bleak photographs of New York after sunset show revelers of the nightlife and a decaying urban landscape, all wrapped in a velvety blackness broken only by street lamps, fluorescent building windows, and the camera’s flash.
The composed portraits of lovers, friends, and artists of New York’s Downtown milieu, often photographed in Hujar’s own loft, capture each sitter in an unrestrained moment of openness and connection.
Studies of New York’s towering buildings, crumbling neighborhoods, and eerily beautiful landfills, and the meditative flow of rivers and seas.
The artist photographed the Palermo Catacombs during a 1963 trip to Italy with Paul Thek. The artist’s first monograph, Portraits in Life and Death (published 1976), juxtaposes several of these images with portraits of writers and artists from Hujar’s social circle.