Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York
1984, printed 1992
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary S. Davis
Accession Number
2011.146.30
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...