Formal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Playwright Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chairman/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from local writers—November 19, 1985.
Allen Ginsberg
1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.4 × 33.1 cm (8 13/16 × 13 1/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2018.196.29
About the Artist
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), born in Newark, New Jersey, emerged as a multifaceted figure in American culture, best known as a Beat Generation poet but also a prolific visual artist whose photographs, drawings, and prints captured the raw energy of his era. His early life offers little documentation on artistic training, though he attended Columbia University in the 1940s, where he formed connectio...