David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II) , 1981

In her introduction to Portraits in Life and Death, Susan Sontag wrote, ‘… Fleshed and moist-eyed friends and acquaintances stand, sit, slouch, mostly lie – and are made to appear to meditate on their own mortality… Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death.’

Paul Thek Outside Oakleyville House, 1966

Merce Cunningham and John Cage Seated (II), 1986

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