Peter Hujar’s Day Trailer OV

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00:00I stay in bed till 11.45, and then I put my clothes on.

00:06I thought you hadn't taken them off.

00:09Oh, I guess I didn't, I just lied.

00:17And I go downstairs to buy cigarettes, and I break a $10 bill because the cigarettes are 56 cents.

00:23God, they are.

00:24I say, is Allen Ginsberg there? And he says, who's calling?

00:31And I say, it's Peter Hujar. I'm supposed to photograph you, the Times.

00:39I get my camera stuff together.

00:41I had a flash that there was something sort of bohemian poet about it, and I'd be much snazzier in my red ski jacket.

00:46Oh, good choice, yeah.

00:47I just think it's more like Lower East Side.

00:49I photographed Ginsberg, and he sits down in the lotus position, looking very Buddha, right in the doorway, and he starts to chant.

01:01And I really think, well, I can't interrupt God.

01:07But I realize that to do good portraits, I have to, like, have the time to really look at it, really see what I'm doing.

01:14Sometimes I just stand and stare at it, and it's even rather pleasurable.

01:17I often have a feeling that in my day, nothing much happens, that I've wasted it.

01:25Well, now you know.

01:26I've wasted another day.

01:32That's why I'm doing this, actually, to find out how people fill up their days.

01:44That's what happened. That's the way it happened.

01:47Thank you.

01:48Thank you.