CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/27/2018

Peter Hujar's 'Lost Downtown' photographs of 70s NY

"John Waters (1)” (1975) is reproduced from Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown, a wonderful companion to the show currently on view at the Morgan Library & Museum. Hujar “went places I never dared to, and hung out with people I’d only read about,” Vince Aletti writes. “He was charismatic and complicated and, it turned out, deeply insecure, with a damaging family history he kept mostly to himself… if he was discouraged—and he often was—he didn’t let it keep him from that evening’s screening, concert, dance performance, press party, nightclub opening, or tour of the baths. His hunger helped whet my appetite for new experiences…”