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Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown by Vince Aletti (2016, Hardcover)
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By Peter Hujar (Photographer) and Vince Aletti (Contributor). Publisher: Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery - 2016.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSteidl Gmbh & Co. Ohg
ISBN-103958291066
ISBN-139783958291065
eBay Product ID (ePID)242600278
Product Key Features
Book TitlePeter Hujar: Lost Downtown
Number of Pages56 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicIndividual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa)
IllustratorYes
GenrePhotography, History
AuthorVince Aletti
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length12.4 in
Item Width12 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPeter Hujar was an underground legend in the downtown ethos of New York in the 1970s and 1980s...his portraits draw on a balance between Avedon's existential minimalism and Diane Arbus's psychological complexity. Hujar's work, along with that of his younger contemporary Robert Mapplethorpe, reflects the deep current of sexual change that arose so powerfully to the surface in the 1970s and '80s.
Dewey Decimal779.2092
SynopsisThe Lower East Side between 1972 and 1985--filled with artists, wannabe artists and hangers-on--was a community of the misbegotten gathered from every town in America and relocated in the mean streets between Broadway and the Bowery, and Peter Hujar was right in the midst of it. Nothing but talent, flamboyance, rank gender-bending mockery and arch irony supported these artists: some made their names, many came to grief and a few made art. In those days, the gutted streets of the Lower East Side resembled a war-zone. Though some established artists had passed through--Rauschenberg and Johns, John Cage and Merce Cunningham--almost everyone lived and worked on the extreme outer margins of money and art, penniless and unknown. As a community, downtown New York was a counterstatement to the rich New York of the banks, museums, media, corporations and the art world itself. That downtown New York is gone: time, gentrification, disease and death have taken their toll and turned this vibrant epoch into a chapter in art history. But before it vanished, its extravagant cast sat for Peter Hujar's camera, and with this volume, that community is vividly brought to life. Featured are Charles Ludlam, David Wojnarowicz, Edwin Denby, Susan Sontag, Paul Thek, Divine, Robert Wilson, John Waters, William S. Burroughs, Ray Johnson, Fran Lebowitz, Remy Charlip, Joe Brainard and many others. Peter Hujar (1934-87) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and moved to Manhattan to work in the magazine, advertising and fashion industries. He documented the vibrant cultural scene of downtown New York throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976 he published Portraits in Life and Death , with an introduction by Susan Sontag. Hujar died of AIDS in 1987., It's a vanished world, and Peter Hujar was right there in it. The Lower East Side between 1972 and 1985 - filled with artists, wannabe artists and hangers-on - was a community of the misbegotten gathered from every town in America and relocated in the mean streets between Broadway and the Bowery. Nothing but their talent, their flamboyance, their rank gender-bending mockery and their arch irony supported them. Some made their names. Many came to grief. A few made art. In those days, the gutted streets of the Lower East Side looked like a war zone. Everyone lived and worked on the extreme outer margins of money and art, penniless and unknown. As a community, Downtown was a counterstatement to the rich New York of the banks, museums, media, corporations ... and the art world itself. That Downtown is forever gone. Time, gentrification, disease and death have taken their toll and turned this vibrant epoch into a chapter of art history. But before it vanished, its extravagant cast sat for Peter Hujar's camera - and is now alive again in front of our eyes. Featured among others: Joe Brainard, William Burroughs, Remy Charlip, Edwin Denby, Divine, Ray Johnson, Fran Lebowitz, Charles Ludlum, Susan Sontag, Paul Thek, John Waters, Robert Wilson, David Wojnarowicz.
LC Classification NumberTR680
Text byAletti, Vince
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- 06 Jan, 2018
Excellent
Outstanding portraits of people who were part of the downtown scene and East Village in those interesting times during the 60s through the 80s. Intimate and tasteful.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
