Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?

Hyperallergic reviewed “Hujar: Contact,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum devoted entirely to photographer Peter Hujar’s contact sheets, drawn from the archive the Morgan acquired in 2013. The show follows the museum’s 2018 retrospective “Peter Hujar: Speed of Life” and presents contact sheets as darkroom work prints that reveal Hujar’s selection process rather than only final images. The exhibition design includes mural-sized enlargements of contact sheets and notebooks, while the original sheets are shown at 8.5 × 11 inches (about 21.6 × 28 cm), with magnifying glasses provided for close viewing. The review notes that many sheets come from Hujar’s medium-format 120 film (with negatives about 6 × 6 cm), and highlights examples such as “Andrew, English boy” (c. 1972), “Bruce de Sainte Croix” (1976), and “Ray Johnson Twice” (c. 1966).

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