Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985. Gelatin silver print, sheet (sight): 14 13/16 × 14 7/8 in. (37.6 × 37.8 cm) Image (sight): 14 5/8 × 14 3/4 in. (37.1 × 37.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.284. © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view
Date
1985
Classification
Photographs
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 14 13/16 × 14 7/8 in. (37.6 × 37.8 cm)
Image (sight): 14 5/8 × 14 3/4 in. (37.1 × 37.5 cm)
Accession number
2024.284
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Rights and reproductions
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Installation photography
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Installation view of David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 13-September 30, 2018). From left to right: Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz with Hand Touching Eye, 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz in Dianne B. Fashion Shoot II, 1983; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz (Village Voice “Heartsick: Fear and Loving in the Gay Community”), 1983. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night
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Installation view of David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 13-September 30, 2018). From left to right: Science Lesson in 3D, 1984; Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz with Hand Touching Eye, 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz in Dianne B. Fashion Shoot II, 1983; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz (Village Voice “Heartsick: Fear and Loving in the Gay Community”), 1983. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night
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Installation view of David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 13-September 30, 2018). From left to right: Das Reingold: New York Schism, 1987; Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water, 1986; Dung Beetles II: Camouflage Leads Us Into Destruction, 1986; Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981; Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, 1981; Mexican Crucifix, 1987; Peter Hujar Dreaming/Yukio Mishima: Saint Sebastian, 1982; I Use Maps Because I Don’t Know How to Paint, 1984; The Newspaper as National Voodoo: A Brief History of the U.S.A., 1986. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night