Monte and Jay, Buddies, Boston
Photograph
Monte and Jay, Buddies, Boston
From Living With AIDS: A Photographic Journal
1992
Gelatin silver print
Image: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in. (12.5 × 17.6 cm)
Paper: 6 5/16 × 8 3/8 in. (16 × 21.2 cm)
Mount: 7 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (19.7 × 23.5 cm)
Matted: 15 × 24 1/8 in. (38.1 × 61.2 cm)
Gift of the photographer, 2025
2025.0042.0020a
Inscriptions Printed on applied label on recto of mat, BC: Monte & Jay \ When people ask what it's like to live with HIV, I explain that it's like living with a roommate from \ hell. Some days you seem to be okay and able to work out your differences. Other days it drives \ you up a wall. The best I can do is to learn to co-exist with the virus. It's there, it's living with you, \ and it's not going to allow you to do everything you want, when you want, and how you want. It's \ going to rear its ugly head and remind you, at the most inopportune times, that you have AIDS. And \ having AIDS means your life is different. Jay, 1992
Inscribed in pencil on mount of image a, BC: S. Lopes
Inscribed in pencil on mount of image b, BC: S. Lopes
Inscribed in pencil on interior of mat, BRC: Monte + Jay
Inscribed in pencil on mount of image a, BC: S. Lopes
Inscribed in pencil on mount of image b, BC: S. Lopes
Inscribed in pencil on interior of mat, BRC: Monte + Jay
