Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on Stairs

Photography and Media

1983

Peter Hujar
American, 1934-1987

This work records sculptures made by David Finn as part of an informal 1983 effort by artists to fill Pier 34 on Manhattan’s West Side with art. The sculptures, along with Wojnarowicz’s series Rimbaud in New York and Hujar’s photographs of inert figures and investigations of the uncanny space between life and death, suggest a shared interest among artists in Hujar’s circle in using the lingering presence of a body to suggest a haunted space.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Peter Hujar
Title: Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on Stairs
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 20.2 cm (8 1/8 × 8 in.); paper: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Ruttenberg Curatorial Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2022.1446

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