Moyra Davey & Peter Hujar - The Shabbiness of Beauty Edition:Unsigned

Moyra Davey & Peter Hujar - The Shabbiness of Beauty Edition:UnsignedMACK 2021 The Shabbiness of Beauty is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujars archives and emerged mainly with little known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance

where he had moved in the 1950s

At the end of 1949 RAIL MAGIC was published for the first time

Woolworth’s and corner stores

As she writes: Real memory

to that of LA photographer Ed Ruscha

What was decisive for the cycle was the question of how the nature of stillness can be depicted in an image

stuffed animal

political and social currency of mass-media images generated by conflict

an immigrant service organisation

In the middle of the 1980s

22 x 28 cm

a small town (Kleinstadt in German) has between five and twenty thousand inhabitants