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.

Peter Hujar, Boys in Car, Halloween, 1978 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, San Gennaro Street Fair at Dawn (I), 1976
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, Trees with Flash, New Jersey, 1975
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, Exxon Station, 1976
gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, Boy in Plastic Pants, 1978 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet)

Peter Hujar, Night, Downtown, 1976 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, No Parking, 1976 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, Night Skyline and Parking Lots, 1976
gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter Hujar, Drag Queen With Flower, Halloween, 1980
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarBoys in Car, Halloween
1978 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarSan Gennaro Street Fair at Dawn (I)
1976
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarTrees with Flash, New Jersey
1975
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarExxon Station
1976
gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarBoy in Plastic Pants
1978 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet)

Peter HujarNight, Downtown
1976 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarNo Parking
1976 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarNight Skyline and Parking Lots
1976
gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]

Peter HujarDrag Queen With Flower, Halloween
1980
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]