Peter Hujar’s Candy Darling on Her Deathbed, created at her request, depicts the transgender icon at the end of her life, in a hospital, as she passes away from lymphoma at the age of 29.
2. Orgasmic Man Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar’s Orgasmic Men series captured subjects at their most vulnerable and pleasurable moments in 1969 by taking bust portraits of various men in the middle of the climax.
3. Peter Hujar’s David Wojnarowicz Photography
Many of Peter Hujar photographs of Wojnarowicz are sensual. The paring knife in his hand created a sliver of danger as he photographed his subject smoking a cigarette and eating the skin of an apple.
4. Portraits In Life And Death Peter Hujar
Portraits in Life and Death by Peter Hujar is the only book written by him, which was released in 1976. The book includes 11 photographs of Palermo’s catacombs and 29 portraits of his friends.