Peter Orlovsky & Robert Frank parked across from my apartment door, his truck --he had stopped by to visit. I brought down my Leica & Fuji cameras & film for him to take my photo for back cover _Selected Poems_. Peter came by. They hadn't seen each other in nine months Peter said. East 12th street, June 11, 1996.
1996
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.5 x 30.1 cm (8 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 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
2011.146.25
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...