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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Peter Hujar curated by Elton John, a fifty-photograph survey of Hujar’s celebrated career. An esteemed collector of photographs as well as one of the world’s most acclaimed musicians, Elton John writes in the exhibition catalogue:

“Though I became a serious—one might even say addicted—collector of photographs in the early 1990s, it wasn’t until 2011 that I acquired my first photograph by Peter Hujar. His work was not well known back then, and it took a while before I came across it. In the years since acquiring that first Hujar I’ve added fourteen more …