I’d asked Robert Frank to take portrait for Selected Poems dust jacket, he showed up late Sunday afternoon, truck parked across from my apartment, yelled up, he had no camera. I came down with Leica & Fuji 6×9, he took some photos midstreet by his car, I snapped him thus, then with my Fuji he said, “This’ll be it,” as long lambent orange sunlight rayed down East 12th Street from Hudson River horizon, it worked fine for book, he was relaxed, accidentally unerring. N.Y. June 9, 1996.

1996

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: 28 x 18.7 cm (11 x 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 x 18.7 cm (13 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.33

  • 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. 75.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: I'd asked Robert Frank to take portrait for Selected Poems dust jacket, he showed up late Sunday afternoon, truck parked across from my department, yelled up, he had no camera, I came down with Leica & Fuji 6 x 9, he took some photos midstreet by his car, I snapped him, then with my Fuji he said, "This'll be it", as long lambent orange sunlight rayed down East 12th street from Hudson River horizon, it worked fine for book, he was relaxed, accidentally unnerving. N.Y. June 9, 1996.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-255; lower right: GDC-689; across lower right stamped in black ink and filled in by unknown hand in graphite: PHOTO INFORMATION Year__6/9/96 Location__NYC IMAGE #__ SLEEVE #__2459 PRINTED BY__Sid Kaplan NOTE__signed AG 8/19/96 [possibly by artist's hand]; across lower left, by unknown hand, on attached post-it in graphite: B[illegible] caption

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