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.

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 an empty street with marquees and tinsel arches spanning the road
Black-and-white photograph of thin bare trees lit up with a camera flash at night
Black and white photograph of the exterior of a gas station during early morning hours
Black and white photograph of shirtless man dressed in flashy clothes sitting on car
Black-and-white photograph of city buildings with lighted windows above a glowing street
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 city buildings lit up from inside standing above a parking lot
Black and white photograph of a person with curly hair, lipstick, and pearl necklace with a lily flower tucked behind one ear
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