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Peter Hujar, “Candy Darling on Her Deathbed (III),” 1973,

Candy Darling was one of the transgender superstars made famous by American pop artist Andy Warhol in the early 1970s. She appeared in a number of Warhol’s films, such as Flesh 1968 and Women in Revolt 1971, and also famously inspired the singer Lou Reed’s hit Walk on the Wild Side (1972).

Hujar’s portrait of Candy shows her in a hospital bed, surrounded by flowers, shortly before she died of cancer at the age of twenty-nine. A single rose lies on the bed by side and Candy adopts a vampish pose, her face heavily made up.

Hujar later wrote of the photoshoot that Candy was ‘playing every death scene from every movie’ (quoted in Peter Schjeldahl, ‘The Bohemian Rhapsody of Peter Hujar’, The New Yorker, 5 February 2018.

Photograph, inkjet print on paper,

Image: 375 × 375 m

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