Peter Hujar (1934-1987) produced only one book during his lifetime, the landmark publication Portraits in Life and Death, published in 1976. This monograph combines 29 portraits of Hujar’s friends, photographed in 1974-75 specifically for the book, with eleven photographs of catacombs Hujar shot in Palermo, Italy, in 1963. The book juxtaposes the faces of such legendary figures as John Waters, Diana Vreeland, Edwin Denby, Divine, Fran Liebowitz, and Robert Wilson with images of decomposing human forms. Only a small edition of Portraits in Life and Death was published, and Hujar, notoriously meticulous about his own printing, was never satisfied with its quality. Peter Hujar’s work has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, and his pictures were included in this summer’s Whitney Museum exhibition, Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. A new monograph, Animals and Nudes, has just been published by Twin Palms, with an essay by Klaus Kertess. This exhibition marks the first occasion that a complete set of vintage prints of all 40 photographs from Portraits in Life and Death has ever been shown. Included in the exhibition are many of the original prints Hujar prepared for the publication and several additional images which he had planned to include but later edited out.