Join us and our Workspace Resident Researcher, Dana Tyrrell as we explore documentary photography centered in and around New York City in the 1970's and 80's, with special focus given to the work of Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz. We will look at these artists photographic works as a product of both their impoverished lifestyles and as a reaction to it. The work itself acts as a foil which prefigures and reacts in real time to the HIV/AIDS epidemic during that period of time. We will also touch upon the work of Buffalo documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, and the differences between straight documentary photography, and documentary photography cum art object.

[source: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center website, 2018-Mar-5]