Allen Ginsberg

Raymond Foye, who age 8 was Kerouac's newspaper delivery boy in Lowell, Mass. later working for City Lights edited Bob Kaufman's books (also for New Directions) & John Wieners' Selected Poems for Black Sparrow; then senior Editor Hanuman books, arranged my collaborations with Francesco Clemente & catalogued my photo negatives '47-'85, curated first photo show. Xmas 1986 in Japanese restaurant 1st Ave + 10 Street Manhattan.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1991

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2010.137.19

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.14

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.3

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

A pale-skinned, bearded man sits on the far side of a table strewn with magazines and newspapers in this horizontal, black and white photograph. The man’s shoulders are angled slightly to our left, and he looks steadily out at us with hooded eyes. Wrinkles line his forehead and cheeks between his nose and mouth. His straight hair is brushed up and back and he has a full beard. His left forearm, to our right, lies along the edge of the table, and he leans onto that elbow. The other hand rests on his knee. His long shirt sleeves are rolled up over the elbows, and he wears a diagonally striped tie. Something weighs down the breast pocket of his rumpled shirt. Two lit taper candles are in short, bulb-shaped candlesticks to the right next to an ashtray holding cigarette butts. The foil surface of a cigarette box gleams on the table behind the candles. A pair of glasses sits on two magazines in front of the man. A box television is directly behind the man, and other objects in the background are swallowed in shadow. A long, handwritten inscription along the bottom reads, “Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard _Old Angel Midnight_ eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986. Allen Ginsberg.”

Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard Old Angel Midnight eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1996

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.23

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.15

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Louise Nevelson at Park Avenue millionaire Patron’s apartment brunch gathering during Jewish Book Fair. I’d not met her before, she transported me to her Mott Street building in a stretch limousine provided by her hosts, showed me her combine-sculpture studio, gave me an autobiographic volume signed, I never saw her again, November 9, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1991

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.84

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Harry Smith returned to visit my house, his old room behind him, about a year after he’d migrated upstate to Cooperstown with two dozen boxes of his paintings, books and several hundred hours of tapes he’d made on my Sony Pro Walkman of the ambient sounds of lower Manhattan (climaxing July 4, 1985) – microphone wrapped in towel on windowsill sucking in dog barks & auto horns from the battery to lower East Side for months. Now it is August 30th, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.67

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.60

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

James Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2010.137.2

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.26

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Poet Gregory Corso addressing cross atop the Grey Nuns’ Orphanage grotto Kerouac immortalized in book 4 Chapter 1, Doctor Sax, a “gigantic pyramid of steps upon which the Cross itself poked phallically up with its poor burden the Son of Man all skewered across it in his Agony and fright – undoubtedly this statue moved in the night.” Lowell, Massachusetts, March 17, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1992

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.59

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.37

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Allen Ginsberg

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

Carrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

James Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.

James Baldwin visiting after my poetry reading, Albion Bookstore, Amherst, Mass, March 22, 1986.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. Street Cambridge, we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, November 8, 1986.

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