At the time of its publication, Newspaper’s readership was formed through the community of queer-leaning artists in downtown New York. As an alternative exhibition space for photographers whose work was not being shown in galleries or museums, Newspaper summarized contemporary experience through the disjunctive visual relationships between images.
Between 1968 and 1971, Steven Lawrence and Peter Hujar published 14 issues of ‘Newspaper’ an underground tabloid that contained no text, only photographs