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Peter Hujar, Moyra Davey, and the Performance of Honesty
In a new photobook drawn from the Hujar archives and her own work, Davey shows how we build a sense of who we are through adulation.
Peter Hujar,
Photobooks - April 28, 2021
While browsing
The Shabbiness of Beauty (MACK, 2121), in which the artist and writer Moyra Davey places her images among those by the late photographer Peter Hujar (“a risky act,” as she puts it), I thought of a line from Davey’s 2008 essay “Notes on Photography & Accident” written in an attempt “to rekindle a desire to make images,” and included in her recent collection of essays ....

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