Gary S. Davis
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Louis Ginsberg in Patterson, N.J
Louis Ginsberg in Patterson, N.J
Allen Ginsberg · 1963, printed later · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2012.118.52
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Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955
Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955
Allen Ginsberg · 1955, printed later · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2012.118.50
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Louise Nevelson at Park Avenue millionaire Patron’s apartment brunch gathering during Jewish Book Fair. I’d not met her before, she transported me to her Mott Street building in a stretch limousine provided by her hosts, showed me her combine-sculpture studio, gave me an autobiographic volume signed, I never saw her again, November 9, 1986.
Louise Nevelson at Park Avenue millionaire Patron’s apartment brunch gathering during Jewish Book Fair. I’d not met her before, she transported me to her Mott Street building in a stretch limousine provided by her hosts, showed me her combine-sculpture studio, gave me an autobiographic volume signed, I never saw her again, November 9, 1986.
Allen Ginsberg · 1986, printed 1991 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2012.118.84
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William S. Burroughs interviewed for Heavy Petting film memoir of youthful erotic initiations, his secretary James Grauerholz leaning forward observing discussion of sex world 1930 – 40s, final movie version cut out Bill’s queer loves. Obie Benz’s Soho loft, New York, December 21, 1986.
William S. Burroughs interviewed for Heavy Petting film memoir of youthful erotic initiations, his secretary James Grauerholz leaning forward observing discussion of sex world 1930 – 40s, final movie version cut out Bill’s queer loves. Obie Benz’s Soho loft, New York, December 21, 1986.
Allen Ginsberg · 1986 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2008.131.14
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Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.
Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.
Allen Ginsberg · 1984 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2012.118.63
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Gelek Rimpoche, meeting him first time in Ann Arbor, benefit-concert reception in hotel for Philip Glass & myself, met Sangha & local dignitaries, November 13, 1989 Probably.
Gelek Rimpoche, meeting him first time in Ann Arbor, benefit-concert reception in hotel for Philip Glass & myself, met Sangha & local dignitaries, November 13, 1989 Probably.
Allen Ginsberg · 1989 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2018.196.17
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I’d asked Robert Frank if he’d make back-jacket photo for Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-'92, we crossed Avenue from his old brick house on Bleeker to leafy empty lot stormfenced near CBGB’s Bowery grunge-rock mecca, he snapped lively Portrait, my Leica M6 strapped on Bike carry-rack, we changed places, I saw his familiar face, September 5, 1993.
I’d asked Robert Frank if he’d make back-jacket photo for Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-'92, we crossed Avenue from his old brick house on Bleeker to leafy empty lot stormfenced near CBGB’s Bowery grunge-rock mecca, he snapped lively Portrait, my Leica M6 strapped on Bike carry-rack, we changed places, I saw his familiar face, September 5, 1993.
Allen Ginsberg · 1993 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2012.118.79
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Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.
Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.
Allen Ginsberg · 1986 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2017.165.3
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Gorki Park, Moscow, Russia
Gorki Park, Moscow, Russia
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos · 1954 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2013.145.5
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Neeli Cherkovski & Jesse Cabrera lover doctor at his left, Nile & Gregory Corso, friends, Jack Micheline right, Trieste Coffeeshop March 16, 1985.
Neeli Cherkovski & Jesse Cabrera lover doctor at his left, Nile & Gregory Corso, friends, Jack Micheline right, Trieste Coffeeshop March 16, 1985.
Allen Ginsberg · 1985 · gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2016.184.13