Peter Hujar
Gay Liberation Front Poster Image, 1970
Pigmented ink print, signed, titled and dated verso in pencil by Stephen Koch, for the Peter Hujar Archive; archive stamp verso in ink;
signed and numbered verso in pencil and print made by Gary Schneider
signed and numbered verso in pencil and print made by Gary Schneider
Image: 47 cm x 30.5 cm
18 1/2 x 12 in
Paper: 50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in
Frame: 69 x 52.5 cm
27 1/8 x 20 5/8 in
18 1/2 x 12 in
Paper: 50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in
Frame: 69 x 52.5 cm
27 1/8 x 20 5/8 in
Edition of 10 (7/10)
Courtesy of The Peter Hujar Archive, Pace Gallery, and Maureen Paley
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Gay Liberation Front Poster Image, 1970 is one of the most famous works created by New York photographer Peter Hujar. The photograph — staged on Wooster Street in Lower Manhattan...
Gay Liberation Front Poster Image, 1970 is one of the most famous works created by New York photographer Peter Hujar. The photograph — staged on Wooster Street in Lower Manhattan — features seventeen men and women marching in total jubilance and solidarity. The photograph was originally intended for use as a recruiting poster for the first-ever gay pride march in June of 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the riots at Stonewall Inn bar, now considered the beginning of the modern queer rights movement. The image expresses the exhilaration of taking over the streets and publicly declaring an identity that society had insisted be kept secret or actively suppressed. It shows the process of coming out as communal, urging the viewer to join in the march, and to find identity within the group effort.