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ISBN: 9781324092179

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar.
“I am moved by the purity of [Hujar’s] intentions. . . . These memento mori can exorcise morbidity as effectively as they evoke its sweet poetry and its panic.”

—Susan Sontag Portraits in Life and Death is the only book of photographs published by Peter Hujar during his lifetime. The twenty-nine portraits of creative people—ranging from William Burroughs, Susan Sontag, and John Waters to Larry Ree, founder of the Trocadero Gloxinia Ballet Company, and T.C. (whose identity is unclear)—possess a haunting beauty and degree of psychological examination that is both offbeat and riveting. Following the portraits come eleven images that can only be described as devastating: pictures of semi-preserved, clothed bodies of nineteenth-century Sicilians found in the arid catacombs beneath a church in Palermo.

There is no necessary connection in the photographs themselves or between the two sections of the book, yet the pictorial progression from life to death is an emblem of the journey we all take. The living subjects seem to be meditating on the mortality that is limned with such profound effect in the catacomb pictures. In different ways, both groups of images speak to the basic fears and emotions that we carry with us, somewhere beyond our consciousness. After viewing this extraordinary book, it is almost impossible not to make those connections and interpretations or be moved by Hujar’s consistent ability to convey what appears to be the inner spirit of his subjects.

Even so, an air of nonchalance, even gaiety, hovers over the photographs. The book is odd, oblique, sometimes opaque, and certainly deeply felt; but it sticks to the mind like a burr. It will be noticed. Once seen, it cannot be forgotten.

Online Read Ebook Portraits in Life and Death by Peter Hujar Benjamin Moser Susan Sontag

Free digital books download Portraits in Life and Death by Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag 9781324092179 ePub MOBI CHM#

Portraits in Life and Death Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag ebook#

Free digital books download Portraits in Life and Death by Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag 9781324092179 ePub MOBI CHM

Portraits in Life and Death Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag ebook