Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, Pier 34, New York, 1983. David Wojnarowicz painting on Pier 34, New York, 1983. Photo copyright and courtesy Dirk Rowntree.
December, 1980: David meets his life-long mentor, photographer Peter Hujar in a bar at Second Avenue and Fourth Street. Back at Hujar’s loft, David is stunned to see Portraits in Life and Death, Hujar’s monograph which David had long admired.