My aunt Clara Lehman talking in mirror of her room, Daughters of Israel old-age Home, she's 83, her 91 year old friend from down the hall visits, they gossip about television, my photo of Clara, her sister my aunt Honey & late uncle Abe sitting together a year earlier in Plexiglas frame by his elbow, photo of her daughters & grandchildren stuck on mirror, I visit her every couple of weeks in West Orange, New Jersey, this was January 26, 1987-- she's my father's younger sister. She'd retired to Miami, Florida, her second husband died, she had to come back to Jersey where most of the family lives.
1987
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 21.7 × 32.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 × 37.8 cm (13 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2017.165.25
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...