A man in a leather jacket focuses as he lights a cigarette on a dimly lit street.

Photographs

David Lighting Up

1985

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
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

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

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