By Maggie Lange The subjects of Peter Hujar’s arresting black-and-white photographs from the 1950s through the 1980s were the citizens of his New York: the famous and niche-famous, beloved ...

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 ...

Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, 1979. © 2025 the Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, DACS London, Pace Gallery, NY, Fraenkel Gallery, SF ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's based on a transcript of Hujar's description of what he did in one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary. A transcript of that recorded conversation was recently discovered ...