Eyes Open in the Dark” at London’s Raven Row gallery is the first exhibition to cover all of Hujar’s later work. Curated by ...

While true that it is about a day in the life of the late photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) that he recounts to his close friend Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) in mundane, expansive detail ...

‘Peter Hujar lived in the Ukrainian ... Born to an immigrant family in New York, Hujar was raised by his Ukrainian grandmother, who spoke only the Ukrainian language to him for the first five years of ...

Instead of capturing the act of losing something, artists like Peter Hujar and Hamad Butt show us what’s been lost.

"Peter Hujar's Day" makes the case that every moment of our lives, no matter how mundane, has value. Peter's (Whishaw) recounting of 24 hours of his own life opens a window into the art milieu of ...

Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that ...

In Peter Hujar’s Day, Whishaw and Hall’s characters have a conversation about just that: a day in the life of the American photographer, best known for his black-and-white portraits.

Peter Hujar (Whishaw) and Rosenkrantz (Hall), who connect over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and record an intimate discussion. Sachs took inspiration from a transcript of their real-life ...

In the lilting, graceful Peter Hujar’s Day the ... snuffed out by the HIV/AIDS crisis, Hujar deserves broader recognition than he got during his short life. Sachs, a true believer in the ...

The film, a tight 75 minutes, is a filmed recreation of a conversation between famed New York photographer Peter Hujar and his friend and journalist Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 in which he describes a ...

“There are very few films that depict the life of an artist in a way that is easy to connect to,” said Films Boutique COO and head of acquisitions Gabor Greiner. “In Peter Hujar’s Day Ira ...

Whishaw and Hall play photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, the pic a cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded between the duo in 1974. Their conversation that day focused on a ...