On his grandparents’ farm, the photographer Peter Hujar developed a deep love for animals, who were among his first, and most enduring, photographic subjects. See more of his images of animals:
Save this storyBefore the photographer Peter Hujar became a famously irascible, and famously loved, fixture of bohemian New York, he was, for a time, a farm boy. Born to an alcoholic mother in Trenton, New Jersey, he was put in the care of his grandparents, who raised him, in the semi-rural Ewing Township, until he was eleven. It was on his grandparents’ farm that he developed a deep love for animals, who were among his first, and most enduring, photographic subjects.
But, while Arbus used her subjects as stand-ins for her own devouring sense of alienation, and Mapplethorpe attempted to vault his subjects into platonic realms of the beautiful, Hujar used his camera to connect, elevating his subjects by allowing them to be truly seen.
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