{"product_id":"17866-hujar-peter-signed-yearbook","title":"Hujar, Peter. (1934 - 1987) Signed Yearbook","description":"\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eHardcover Yearbook. Unpaginated, 7 x 8 in. Light soiling and fading to cover cloth, else fine. The copy of Annabelle Simon, who graduated from the School of Industrial Art, New York in 1953, containing 56 personal inscriptions from her graduating classmates and including a signed inscription from the celebrated photographer Peter Hujar. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eHujar has been recognized posthumously as \"one of the major American photographers of the late twentieth century,\" and \"among the greatest American photographers.\"  He\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e received his first camera in 1947 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eand in 1953 entered the \u003c\/span\u003eSchool of Industrial Art\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e where he expressed interest in being a photographer. He was fortunate to encounter an encouraging teacher, the poet Daisy Aldan, and following her advice, he became a commercial photography apprentice. Apart from classes in photography during high school, Hujar's entire photographic education and remarkable technical mastery was acquired in commercial photo studios. By 1957, when he was 23 years old, Hujar was making photographs now considered to be of museum quality. Early in 1967, Hujar was one of a select group of young photographers in a master class taught by \u003c\/span\u003eRichard Avedon\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eMarvin Israel\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, where he met \u003c\/span\u003eAlexey Brodovitch\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eDiane Arbus\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093664288927,"sku":"17866","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Screen_Shot_2019-09-03_at_1.12.09_PM.png?v=1722189540","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/17866-hujar-peter-signed-yearbook","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}