Loneliness, HIV, Death, Fame: Peter Hujar’s Gloomy Story — Bird In Flight

Peter Hujar is an iconic photographer, mysterious creator, famous innovator, and fearless fighter against hypocrisy. Now, books with his photographs are actively published now and high-profile exhibitions of his work are held on famous platforms — but fame came to him almost thirty years after he died. Aleksandr Liapin tells us about the work of the American photographer who inspired Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin.

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