Peter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen...visiting from Venezia to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier March-July 1961.
1961, printed 1989
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.5 x 30.5 cm (8 1/16 x 12 in.) sheet: 27.6 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary S. Davis
Accession Number
2011.146.34
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...