Peter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (_Desolation Angels_) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
1955, printed 1995
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.8 × 30.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2015.163.41
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...