Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures

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White Turkey, Pennsylvania, 1985

John Douglas Miller: ‘I love this image of a turkey. It’s so wonderfully other, the strange prehistoric feel of it, the wonderful contrast of textures. The bird’s seeming self-regard, and ancient, alien gaze. The neck is so sculptural, as though it were cast in metal, or beads of mercury. When we began hanging the show on the day of Trump’s inauguration, I kept looking at this image and the associations were difficult to avoid: the destruction of nature, turkeys voting for Christmas, preening self-importance’

 the destruction of nature, turkeys voting for Christmas, preening self-importance. More personally I can’t help but be reminded of the fact Hujar died on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November, 1987. He, however, would have hated these associations. He wasn’t interested in symbols at all. JDM
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