The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death”

The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death”

There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard to imagine that the words “East Village loft” would ever sound chic. The room looks appropriately ratty: the floor is scuffed, the radiator covered in thick … Read more

Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love

Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love

Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s debauched landmark “Trash.” Ed, who wore a blue peacoat, his hair below his shoulders, spoke first. “I noticed you … Read more