Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Polk & Sutter, “Polk Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955.
1955, printed 1994
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.5 × 41.5 cm (10 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.) sheet: 40.5 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2012.118.89
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...