Two abandoned, injured-looking figures slumped on debris-covered stairs inside a graffiti-covered, ruined building.

Photographs

Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on the Stairs

1983

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 8 in. (20.6 × 20.3 cm)
Accession number
2017.265
Acquired
2017
Credit line
Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive
Reproduction credit
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Peter Hujar, Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on the Stairs, 1983. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 8 in. (20.6 × 20.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Peter Hujar Archive 2017.265. © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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