by Sam Moore
” A IS FOR AIDS CRISIS
Tragically, it’s impossible to talk about Hujar’s life and work without considering the Aids crisis which ravaged the queer community in the 1970s and 80s. While John Douglas Millar – the co-curator of the Raven Row retrospective, and Hujar’s biographer – acknowledges that “it’s difficult to say in any straightforward way how the Aids crisis influenced Hujar’s work formally,” as time goes on it feels impossible to avoid acknowledging the ways in which it creeps in on the edge of the frame. “
“As the career-spanning retrospective Eyes Open in the Dark opens at Raven Row in London, we present a dA-Zed guide to the life and work of Peter Hujar, whose photographs remain as aesthetically power and politically urgent now as they were decades ago. “click the link for the full article.