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Peter photographer europe 2015
A Closer Look At Peter Hujar’s Lesser-Known Photos of Italy
A new exhibition in Prato shows the breadth of Hujar’s relatively short career, with a mix of photographs of the performance scene in 70s New York and his travels through Italy
TextJames Greig
Lead ImagePeter Hujar, La marchesa Fioravanti, 1963© The Peter Hujar Archive/Artists Rights Society (Ars), Ny
Performance and Portraiture / Italian Journeys, a new exhibition of Peter Hujar’s photography at the Centro Pucci gallery in Prato, is the latest in a series of major retrospectives devoted to the once-neglected photographer.
Even during his professional heyday in the 1970s and 80s, when he enjoyed quiet acclaim and was championed by Susan Sontag, Hujar led a life of ascetic poverty (washing his clothes by hand in the sink, sometimes surviving on hor d’oeuvres handed out at parties) which was almost, but not quite, deliberate.
He resented being poor but seemed to sabotage every opportunity for financ