Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Peter Hujar on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Berg, 1986
"His pictures share, in place of a style, an unfailing rigor that can only be experienced, not described." - Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Hujar
Paul Thek, Nude, Astride Zebra, 1965

Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, 1975
"He lived in different worlds, he touched many people, and his work, like so few photographs, can’t be forgotten and becomes even deeper and more compelling over time."
- Nan Goldin

Candy Darling, "On Her Deathbed III", a photo by Peter Hujar, 1973.
Hujar later wrote of this session, that Darling was "playing every death scene from every movie."

Paul Thek by Peter Hujar, Palermo, 1963

Peter Hujar
Paul Thek with Hand Sculptures

Merce Cunningham by Peter Hujar, 1986

Quentin Crisp by Peter Hujar, New York, 1982

Two great portraits of Isaac Hayes by Peter Hujar, for GQ, 1971
Hayes' spectacular cover of "Walk on By", with The Bar-Kays, 1969:

Gay Liberation Front Poster Image
An iconic photograph by Peter Hujar from 1970
#NationalComingOutDay 🏳️‍🌈

John Cage Laughing
A great portrait by Peter Hujar, from 1974

Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, 1966
In her introduction to Hujar’s book Portraits in Life and Death, Sontag says "photography converts the whole world into a cemetery".

Janet Flanner by Peter Hujar, 1974

David Brintzenhofe Applying Makeup
📷 Peter Hujar, 1982

William Burroughs by Peter Hujar, 1985

John Waters by Peter Hujar, 1975

Lola Pashalinski by Peter Hujar, 1986

Iggy Pop by Peter Hujar
GQ, 1971