With Peter Hujar in the Palermo catacombs
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Author: Hujar, Peter
Title: Untitled [Palermo Catacombs #8]
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Estate of Peter Hujar
Date Published: 1963; print: 1990
Description:
Author: Hujar, Peter
Title: Untitled [Palermo Catacombs #8]
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Estate of Peter Hujar
Date Published: 1963; print: 1990
Description:
Gelatin silver print. 25.1x20.3 cm (10x8"). Estate print.
Estate stamp on print verso. One of Hujar's arresting images from the Palermo catacombs. Several of these images would be published in Hujar's only photobook Portraits In Life And Death published in 1976. “Photography...converts the whole world into a cemetery. Photographers, connoisseurs of beauty, are also—wittingly or unwittingly—the recording-angels of death...Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death.” - Susan Sontag, Introduction, Portraits in Life and Death.
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Minuscule bump at lower left corner of sheet, else fine.
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With Peter Hujar in the Palermo catacombs
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