The Living Theater family departing founder Julian Beck's interment in North Jersey cemetery, September 19, 1985. Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach led widow actress- Judith Malina forward weeping goodbye, she's held by daughter Isha center holding hands with son Garrick Beck in beret, Judith's tall husband-to-be Hanon Reznikov gazing down behind them wearing yarmulke skull-cap; extreme right Anne Tardos with aleatory musician- Poet Jackson Machour. This anarchist- Pacifist artists' troupe anticipated in first Postwar U.S. Anti- Nuclear peace protest 1957, refusing with Catholic Workers group to enter A-Bomb shelter during New York state-wide war drill.
1985, printed 1992
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.5 × 33.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.3 cm (10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2017.165.36
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...