Peter Hujar
Day of the Dead Graveyard (II), Mazatlan, Mexico
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October 5, 04:46 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Peter Hujar
1934 - 1987
Day of the Dead Graveyard (II), Mazatlan, Mexico
gelatin silver print, the photographer's estate stamps, signed, annotated 'EPH807B-5,' and dated by Stephen Koch, Executor, and with title and date in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1977
image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)
frame: 21⅝ by 17½ in. (54.9 by 44.5 cm.)
Susan Sontag, a literary celebrity of academic and critical writing, agreed to pen the foreword for Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death. Writing about his larger work, Sontag expressed her belief that Hujar "knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death … I am moved by the purity and delicacy of his intentions." Portraits in Life and Death was the photographer's only book published in his lifetime.
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