The skeletons of collapsing buildings; shifting licks of light on water; insubmissive deathbed portraiture. Wandering through ‘Persistence of Vision’ at Gropius Bau, I feel fizzy. Peter Hujar’s photography, mostly taken in 1970s and 80s New York, is occupied with the intensity of impermanence. It seeks out a startling kind of liveliness, the sort that comes when subjects are at their most mutable.
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