Foyer & arcade at Entrance to Josef Stalin Birthplace Museum, Gori, Georgia Soviet Union-- truck drivers on the road to nearby Vani & Tbilisi still had Stalin-face stickers on their windshields. Outside Lendava marble shelter at the wooden birth-house itself, small rooms low ceilings I remember. Not many people in the museum, first weeks of Glasnost, December 7, 1985.
1985
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 30.4 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.) mount: 51.3 × 40.6 cm (20 3/16 × 16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2016.184.42
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...