When Peter Met Paul (opens in new tab)

Paul Thek, photographed by Peter Hujar in 1975. This is the last portrait Hujar ever took of Thek. By Richard Lacayo Andrew Durbin picked a good title for his dual biography of the artist Paul Thek and the photographer Peter Hujar, sometime lovers and longtime friends. The Wonderful World That Almost Was is the story of their occasional work-life highs—Thek’s museum shows, Hujar’s magazine work—but also of the career costs of both men’s dismissal of mere commercial success. To complicate matt...