Peter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type The Soft Machine cut-up writings, Gregory Corso sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muniria, my Kodak Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tangier Moroc.
1961, printed 1989
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 30 × 44 cm (11 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)
sheet: 40.3 × 50.5 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.81
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Peter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean / sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type The Soft Machine [underlined] cut-up writings, Gregory Corso / sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, / myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muneria, my Kodak / Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tanger Moroc. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left inverted in graphite: V#1; upper right perpendicular: 10/18/89 / S.K.; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower left perpendicular in graphite; 61/#47/829; lower center: GD-AG-80; lower right: GDC-864