‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar
Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime
The curators of an exhibition of one of New York’s most important photographers, who captured gay life in the city during the 1970s, hope the show will shed new light on an artist whose work was deemed too “difficult” in his lifetime.
Eyes Open in the Dark, which opens at Raven Row in London on Thursday, is the largest UK exhibition of photographs by Peter Hujar, who has been acclaimed for the warmth and compassion of his images but was little known during his lifetime.
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