“Peter Hujar’s Day” is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the experience of watching it is actually like. While true that it ...

On that score, you might say that "Peter Hujar's Day" is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day - but ...

Following the film’s Sundance premiere and sale to Sideshow and Janus Films, “Peter Hujar’s Day” has released a first look. The clip features a conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz ...

The performance is thrillingly lived-in — from Peter’s contemplative thought process to the seductive fluidity of his movements. Unlike his contemporary, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hujar was one of ...

Ben Whishaw in "Peter Hujar's Day" by Ira Sachs. Credit: Sundance Institute From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's ...

The film, Peter Hujar’s Day, is about the celebrated gay photographer of the same name. Whishaw plays the role of Hujar, who ...

Peter Hujar, Person in Veil (Backstage, The Life & Times of Joseph Stalin, Brooklyn Academy of Music), 1973. © 2025 the Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society ...

The late US photographer Peter Hujar once said: “My work comes out of my life. The people I photograph are not freaks or curiosities to me. I like people who dare.” Hujar’s sitters seem to ...

There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard to imagine that the ...

Lauded for his self-portraits, Schneider is also a master printer of other artists' photographs—particularly those of his friend and mentor Hujar. Gary Schneider (r.) with husband John Erdman as ...

One recent sweltering summer afternoon, photographer Ethan James Green and I escaped the heat by visiting the Ukrainian Museum in New York to see “Peter Hujar: Rialto.” In the dog days of a ...

On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day — but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw ...