A biopic of the late East Village-based artist-photographer Peter Hujar is in the works... Deadline first reported that Ben Whishaw has the lead in the film directed by director Ira Sachs (the two worked together in the 2023 release "Passages.")Ben Whishaw to star in Ira Sachs’ new biopic of photographer Peter Hujar https://t.co/yYANYWazrW pic.twitter.com/vkzsQ58dCB
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Per Dazed:
"Peter Hujar's Day" – which had apparently been scheduled to begin shooting in November 2023 but was delayed due to last year's strikes – will... be an "intimate" film about the renowned photographer. Hujar’s story promises to make a compelling film. He lived as he worked – unflinching, unsqueamish and uncompromising, equally drawn to the stark beauty of the human condition as he was to the danger of the abandoned West Side Hudson River piers (a notorious cruising location).
Hujar lived and worked above the Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater (today, the Village East by Angelika) on Second Avenue at 12th Street. Read more about the space where Jackie Curtis and David Wojnarowicz lived before and after Hujar right here.
And you're interested in more on the subject... "Peter Hujar's Day" is also a book that contains a transcript of a conversation between Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz. Per the description: Rosenkrantz asked Hujar to write down everything he did one day on Dec. 18, 1974.
A highly recommended book.
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