Hujar: Contact draws on an extensive archive of contact sheets and job books made by Peter Hujar between 1954 and 1986, offering a rare window into his creative process.
Hujar's empathetic eye ranged across protest crowds, damaged relics, and farm animals, but returned above all to the artists, writers, and underground figures of his New York — portraits of Susan Sontag, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, Fran Lebowitz, and others.
Critical texts by Joel Smith trace the development of his practice against the cultural upheavals marked by Stonewall and AIDS, while transcriptions and annotations by Olivia McCall illuminate over a thousand recorded shoots — rich in unseen images alongside the earliest versions of his most iconic work. The result is an immersive chronicle of a photographer driven to connect, through the lens, with the communities that shaped his life and art.
