What Do We Really Know of the Dead: Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death” and Paul P.’s “Sibilant Esses”
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What Do We Really Know of the Dead: Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death” and Paul P.’s “Sibilant Esses”

At some point in college—or maybe grad school, I sought out Peter Hujar’s only published photobook Portraits in Life and Death at New York University’s Bobst Library. I wanted to pour over black and white photographs of filth elders like a pensive portrait of Divine, sans wig and forehead-reaching liquid eyeliner, curled up in a … Continue reading