
Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on Stairs
<p>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.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Peter Hujar
Artist

Photography
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits. Hujar's work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Record
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- Peter Hujar
- Year
- 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.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1983-116216
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





