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Fayette (Cockette), photographed by Peter Hujar, 1971. Six months after the release of Ira Sachs’s film Peter Hujar’s Day, three exhibitions in New York give long-overdue attention to the American photographer By Osman Can Yerebakan Farm animals were Peter Hujar’s first subjects. The photographer’s early years were spent with his Ukrainian mother and grandparents on a farm in central New Jersey, which exposed him to the emotionality of nature. Decades before his lens moved between nocturnal v...