{"id":2068724,"date":"2025-10-04T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2068724"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:59:10","slug":"underrated-master-photographer-peter-hujar-gets-his-due-in-s-f-show-and-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/underrated-master-photographer-peter-hujar-gets-his-due-in-s-f-show-and-new-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Underrated master photographer Peter Hujar gets his due in S.F. show and new film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter\u00a0Hujar’s<\/a> photographs are haunting, glamorous, gorgeously grotesque, emotionally devastating and above all, honest.<\/p>\n

Now, Bay Area audiences have a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of this under-sung master of 20th century photography.<\/p>\n

With “Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show Revisited,” the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco is recreating a now-legendary 1986 show in New York’s East Village presented by gallerist Gracie Mansion. The 70 photographs include portraits of friends, artists and dogs; nudes; landscapes; scenes of decaying abandoned buildings; and images of animals, living and dead.<\/p>\n

“What became obvious to me, living with this show, was that everything was a portrait,” Mansion said in a discussion about the work for Fraenkel Gallery, highlighting how Hujar brought that point of view even to inanimate objects and scenes.<\/p>\n

The Fraenkel presentation reproduces the original exhibition layout and even includes some prints from the 1986 show.<\/p>\n

Hujar died a year after that exhibition, on Nov. 26, 1987, of complications from the AIDS virus that was devastating the queer and artistic communities. He was 53 years old.<\/p>\n

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