Geoffrey Manough, day after 18th birthday, Poet visiting New York from College Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pasta salad on 1st ave. "I feel like I could Walk / into a forest / and start a fire with every footprint / ...I have found a me long buried / beneath sludge, gripe, and scabs / beneath discrimination and self-hate. / All devices aside, / I can now say that the race is won. / I'm over the line." From Mystic's Fists pamphlet. March 21, 1995.

1995

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a young man from the chest up, seated with his body facing the camera and slightly leaning forward. His head is slightly tilted, and he is smiling directly at the viewer. He has short, dark hair and facial hair, including a mustache and a beard. He is wearing a light-colored, open jacket over a T-shirt with a visible logo or design on it. In front of him, there is a large white plate with a salad. He is holding a fork in his right hand, which rests on the edge of the plate. To the right of the plate is a spoon. The background features a light-colored wall with part of a framed mirror visible, reflecting some abstract shapes or other frames. There's a handwritten note at the bottom of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.3 × 19.6 cm (11 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.184.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Geoffrey Manough, day after 18th birthday, Poet visiting New / York from College Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pasta salad on 1st ave. / "I feel like I could Walk/into a forest/and start a fire with every / footprint/...I have found a me long buried/beneath sludge, gripe, / and scabs/beneath discrimination and self-hate./All devices aside,/ / I can now say that the race is won./I'm over the line." From / Mystic's Fists pamphlet. March 21, 1995.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #98 VE; top right in graphite: X; upper right in graphite: 3/12/95 / Neg 9; upper right in graphite: ✓; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-263; bottom right in graphite: GDC-640

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