Peter Hujar never meant for his contact sheets to be displayed publicly. Yet at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, a new exhibition asks visitors to look closely at what was left on the photographer’s darkroom floor — magnifying glass included.
Julia Curl examines what it means to approach Hujar’s contact sheets as “excerpts of a conversation,” and how that idea shaped his approach to portraiture and photography.
In the opinion section, Coco Fusco raises the alarm about jailed Cuban performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, whose whereabouts remain unknown after his unjust five-year sentence ended on Thursday.
Also in today’s edition: the Louvre heist returns to the news, and a look at how album covers shape the way we experience music.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
