William S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace Paperback Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder. Japanese kite against old hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of Yage Letters and Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter-zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tangier in December. New York, Fall 1953.
1953, printed later
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.7 x 40.5 cm (10 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 50.3 cm (15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary S. Davis
Accession Number
2011.146.38
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...