Peter Hujar: Night

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.

Black and white photograph of a figure leaning against a parked car
Black-and-white photograph of an empty street with marquees and tinsel arches spanning the road
Black-and-white photograph of a shuttered garage door painted with NO PARKING and single car parked in an adjacent driveway on a cobbled street
Black and white photograph of a person with curly hair, lipstick, and pearl necklace with a lily flower tucked behind one ear
A black and white photograph of two people in a car wearing hats and masks, one leans out of the window with a cigarette in their mouth, the other peers in the same direction from the steering wheel
Black and white photograph of shirtless man dressed in flashy clothes sitting on car
Black and white photograph of a man leaning against a tree in a park at night
Black and white photograph of the exterior of a gas station during early morning hours
Black-and-white photograph of city buildings with lighted windows above a glowing street
Black-and-white photograph of city buildings lit up from inside standing above a parking lot
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