Internment of Julian Beck August 19, 1985 New Jersey cemetery—Among Living Theater folk Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach with filigreed yarmulke front left, tall Hanon, daughter Isha holding Judith Malina widow weeping goodbye, Bob Foss carrying tape machine, Poet Jackson Machour centered, eldest son Garrick Beck emptying first shovel of earth into fosse, at right.
Allen Ginsberg
1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.9 × 29.7 cm (7 13/16 × 11 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2018.196.16
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...