“Architecture was one of three new types of portrait subject preoccupying him. He chose unprepossessing towers in Midtown and portrayed them, for the most part, in isolation, from a vantage point on the sidewalk or a low rooftop. He thus filled the frame with sky and crown: these are celebrity headshots. To apply the terms of his book’s title, buildings are both dead and alive: inanimate yet humanity-charged and historic presences, New Yorkers at grand scale.”
Joel Smith, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life