Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets Reveal an Artist in the Process of Becoming

5,783 contact sheets spanning Peter Hujar ’s photographic life are stored in eight banker boxes. Each sheet is encased in a plastic wallet, separated, and sorted vertically like documents in a filing cabinet. There is nothing especially remarkable about these prosaic boxes: colourless, functional, quietly banal. They could easily be passed over without a second glance. Yet inside, they hold an entire world. On the occasion ofhellip;

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