Gary S. Davis

Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' Naked Lunch editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic Sheeper (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.31

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Creeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.38

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Al Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.22

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Pablo and Robert Frank visiting from Bronx State Hospital, my living room on East 12th Street, October 1984. Same noses.

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1990

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2010.137.35

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Herbert E. Huncke age 69 retired from the street on methadone program, head tilted wise-eyed for wry conversation, about to say something charming, flattering or honest at the kitchen table New York March 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.65

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

William Burroughs listening to new poetry-music tapes I'd made with Elvin Jones. We were staying in adjoining apartments at Varsity Townhouses, rented for the Summer session of Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. We'd come every year since 1974, along with Peter Orlovsky, & Gregory Corso as frequent visitor. Anne Waldman & I co-directed the Buddhist-oriented poetry section. July 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1990

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.29

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Robert Duncan in his front room, San Francisco October 12, 1984

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.22

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1992

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2011.146.30

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.37

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Peter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1991

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.27

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.30

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Francesco Clemente, artist, & C.T. Nachiappan (his printer host in Madras at Kalakshetra Press -- Hanuman Editions) at Kiev restaurant on Second Avenue and 7th Street

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1990

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.6

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view.

Gary S. Davis

Creeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.

Creeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.

Al Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.

Al Aronowitz Bearsville New York August 17, 1984, his bedroom.

Pablo and Robert Frank visiting from Bronx State Hospital, my living room on East 12th Street, October 1984. Same noses.

Pablo and Robert Frank visiting from Bronx State Hospital, my living room on East 12th Street, October 1984. Same noses.

Herbert E. Huncke age 69 retired from the street on methadone program, head tilted wise-eyed for wry conversation, about to say something charming, flattering or honest at the kitchen table New York March 1984.

Herbert E. Huncke age 69 retired from the street on methadone program, head tilted wise-eyed for wry conversation, about to say something charming, flattering or honest at the kitchen table New York March 1984.

Robert Duncan in his front room, San Francisco October 12, 1984

Robert Duncan in his front room, San Francisco October 12, 1984

Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York

Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Peter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.

Peter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Francesco Clemente, artist, & C.T. Nachiappan (his printer host in Madras at Kalakshetra Press -- Hanuman Editions) at Kiev restaurant on Second Avenue and 7th Street

Francesco Clemente, artist, & C.T. Nachiappan (his printer host in Madras at Kalakshetra Press -- Hanuman Editions) at Kiev restaurant on Second Avenue and 7th Street

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