Peter Hujar: Piers

Christopher Street Piers were an important site of emerging gay cuture in the 1970s and 80s, and an inspired location for artists, who used the dilapidated structures as canvas or backdrop for their work.

Black and white photograph of a distressed and litter ridden staircase
Black-and-white photograph of a derelict interior with a muscular man painted on a wall beyond a doorway
Black-and-white photograph of a derelict interior with a man painted on the wall
Black-and-white photograph of three painted panels standing in a derelict tiled bathroom
Black-and-white photograph of the view of crumbling walls through four meeting derelict doorways
Black-and-white photograph of a derelict interior with comic panels painted on the wall
Black and white photograph of a figure laying on ropes attached to a pier while looking directly at the viewer
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