William Burroughs, 11 PM late March 1985, being driven home to 222 Bowery. Experimenting with hand held half-second Rolleiflex exposure, camera upside down for view, Burroughs phantom in street light stop sign illumination fuzzy, couldn’t move back further to focus sharper, I was in rear seat.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.7 x 18.9 cm (7 3/4 x 7 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.21

  • Copyright

    Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 103.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: William Burroughs, 11 pm late March 1985, being driven home to 222 Bowery. Experimenting with hand held half-second Rolliflex exposure, camera upside down for view, Burroughs phantom in street light stop sign illumination fuzzy, couldn't move back further to focus sharper, I was in rear seat; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-186; lower right: GDC-518; upper left: #318/12,077; upper right: 3/27/85 BK 3 # 9 env [?] 2

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