Ray Bremser, Jazz-bar sound-poetry genius, syncopating wow-sound word- / walloper, original N.Y. late-1950's Coffeshop bard with Kerouac & LeRoi Jones, his long-ago jail songs were noted by Bob Dylan in _The Times They are a Changin'_; at kitchen table March 15, 1987, he stayed over to read Poetry and teach my "Literary History of Beat Generation" Class Brooklyn College, come down from A.A. halfway house in Utica N.Y., rare trip to the Apple for survivor w/ big fine beard.
1987
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 25.3 cm (10 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 35.3 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2015.163.20
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...