Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' _Naked Lunch_ editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic _Sheeper_ (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--
Allen Ginsberg
1984
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.8 × 20.1 cm (8 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 35.3 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2015.163.31
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...