Wandering Motel rooms San Francisco Portland Seattle & Kenyon College one month, poetry readings, book signings, interviews, I snapped self-portraits in clothes closet & bathroom mirrors midnights before bed whenever I saw full length views & doubled reflections. Sometime September 1991.

1991

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image depicts a man taking a full-body self-portrait in a bathroom mirror. He is facing the camera, holding the camera with both hands. The man has a broad face, a slightly open mouth, a beard, thinning hair, and is wearing glasses. He is naked. The background shows a hotel bathroom with a door and a wall reflecting multiple angles, including the man's back. Multiple reflections of the man are visible due to the mirror angles.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.7 x 19 cm (11 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.103.28

  • 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. 96.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Wandering Motel rooms San Francisco Portland Seattle & Kenyon College one month, poetry readings, book signings, interviews, I snapped self-portraits in clothescloset & bathroom mirrors midnights before bed whenever I saw full length views & doubled reflections. Sometime September 1991.; on verso, by unknown hand, across upper left in graphite: 1991; across lower center: GD-AG-272; across lower right: 9/9/91 GDC-665; across center stamped in black: Photograph By Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fax 212-675-1686


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