On December 18, 1974, the author Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did on that day. Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th Street the following day, where she asked him about it in detail and tape-recorded their conversation. Peter Hujar’s Day is a full transcript of that exchange, published here for the first time since it was recorded 47 years ago. The book features an introduction by Stephen Koch, director of the Peter Hujar Estate.
Linda Rosenkrantz (born 1934) is a Los Angeles–based, Bronx-born writer and the author of the repellently raunchy novel Talk . . . .go to book page >>

A glorious photobook in which people, places and things casually tangle up into beautifully baffling configurations, Jordan Weitzman’s (born 1984) Participation captures the world at a slant where naked bodies form sultry architecture and everyday clutter assembles into art. With a Louis Fratino dust jacket featuring half-etched figures and mysterious symbols, the book’s sequence is intimate and playful while never spelling itself out. Its title expresses the photographer’s immersion in his milieu, as he locates with an exacting compositional eye where the goofiness and boredom of everyday life drift into formal complexity and undefinable emotional states; it is an invitation . . . .go to book page >>