Name: Portraits in Life and Death
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Author: Hujar, Peter ; Moser, Benjamin ; Sontag, Susan
ISBN: 9781324092179

Type

Physical Book

Author

Peter Hujar

Introduction by

Susan Sontag

Preface by

Benjamin Moser

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781324092179

Synopsis "Portraits in Life and Death"

The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar's Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, "was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of its era" (Holland Cotter, senior art critic of the New York Times). When Hujar passed away in 1987, his work was relatively unknown except for a small following. The importance and artistic mastery of Hujar's photography, its tender gravity and intimacy, became recognized and canonical only after his death. The republication of this collection is composed of the original introduction by Susan Sontag and preceded by a new foreword by Benjamin Moser, with photographs presented in two sequences. A stirring ode to the flourishing downtown scene of the 1970s, this collection remains a deeply moving artifact of post-Stonewall New York City.

Susan Sontag

(Introduction by)

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(New York, 1933-2004) writer, novelist, philosopher, essayist, professor, film director, and American screenwriter. She began her literary career in 1963 and established herself as one of the leading figures in the intellectual movements of the sixties. She is highly esteemed, both for her works and for her denunciation of major contemporary social and political issues. She has received several awards, including the Jerusalem Prize for her body of work in 2001 and in 2003 the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Peace Prize, awarded by German booksellers.

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