John Giorno, Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer through Giorno Poetry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teachers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987.
1987, printed 1991
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.8 × 25 cm (9 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2016.184.26
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...