Peter Hujar's radical portraits arrive at the Bundeskunsthalle

Photographer Peter Hujar (1934–1987) was a central figure in the New York downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1950s, Hujar studied photography at the School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan. After abandoning commercial photography, he led a financially precarious life, exhibiting only occasionally. Peter Hujar's primary concern was wirh portraiture - he photographed his friends, lovers, and people in his social circle with striking intimacy and emotional depth. In his work, which also includes animal, landscape, and architectural subjects, Hujar repeatedly reveals himself as a sensitive chronicler of a time of social upheaval and radical sexual transformation. The exhibition Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark in the Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) in Bonn focuses