Girl in My Hallway

1976

Not on view

Before his death from AIDS at age 53, Hujar was an influential figure in New York’s downtown demimonde. He made portraits of other artists, writers, and performers, as well as street scenes, sad and mysterious pictures of animals, landscapes, and nude studies. His work is held together less by subject or style than by a particular sensibility: intimate and somber, carnal though formally refined, cool yet oddly emotional—like a sad song with a good beat. This tightly framed photograph of a girl passed out in the artist’s hallway captures the gritty glamour of the East Village scene in the 1970s, reflecting on excess and its aftermath.

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Title: Girl in My Hallway
Artist: Peter Hujar (American, Trenton, New Jersey 1934–1987 New York)
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 37 x 37.1 cm (14 9/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Mat: 25 × 25 in. (63.5 × 63.5 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2006
Object Number: 2006.288
Rights and Reproduction: ©The Peter Hujar Archive, L.L.C.
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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