Gary S. Davis

R.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.

Allen Ginsberg

1987

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.13

John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1990

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.19

A pale-skinned, bearded man sits on the far side of a table strewn with magazines and newspapers in this horizontal, black and white photograph. The man’s shoulders are angled slightly to our left, and he looks steadily out at us with hooded eyes. Wrinkles line his forehead and cheeks between his nose and mouth. His straight hair is brushed up and back and he has a full beard. His left forearm, to our right, lies along the edge of the table, and he leans onto that elbow. The other hand rests on his knee. His long shirt sleeves are rolled up over the elbows, and he wears a diagonally striped tie. Something weighs down the breast pocket of his rumpled shirt. Two lit taper candles are in short, bulb-shaped candlesticks to the right next to an ashtray holding cigarette butts. The foil surface of a cigarette box gleams on the table behind the candles. A pair of glasses sits on two magazines in front of the man. A box television is directly behind the man, and other objects in the background are swallowed in shadow. A long, handwritten inscription along the bottom reads, “Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard _Old Angel Midnight_ eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986. Allen Ginsberg.”

Lucien Carr, my oldest friend from college days, had introduced me to Jack Kerouac after they’d met at the West End bar on 113th St. & Broadway, and connected Jack + me to his fellow St. Louis uppermiddle-class (aristocrat we thought) confrère William S. Burroughs, late winter 1944. We lived down the hall from each other on 7th floor Union Theological Seminary, Columbia freshman dorm during W.W.II, I heard haunting Brahms sextet music through his door, knocked, we met. Kerouac heard Old Angel Midnight eloquence in Lucien’s laconic “Celtic” intonations. Here four decades later, wise Old Dog Bureau Manager United Press International he was visiting former house-mate Alene Lee’s Soho loft. More eyes perused his wire-service prose than all Jack’s & my texts, I’ll bet. December 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1996

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.23

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.3

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1987

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.22

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.60

Harry Smith returned to visit my house, his old room behind him, about a year after he’d migrated upstate to Cooperstown with two dozen boxes of his paintings, books and several hundred hours of tapes he’d made on my Sony Pro Walkman of the ambient sounds of lower Manhattan (climaxing July 4, 1985) – microphone wrapped in towel on windowsill sucking in dog barks & auto horns from the battery to lower East Side for months. Now it is August 30th, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.67

John Hammond ill December 4, 1986

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1990

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.34

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.14

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

Rene Ricard, outrageous faggot art critic, author God with Revolver poems, visiting my apartment from his across the hall, same building E. 12 Street (his windows opposite my kitchen window here across courtyard). Two years later fire drove him out on the street hallucinating murder basements. July 29, 1986.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1991

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.26

Raymond Foye, who age 8 was Kerouac's newspaper delivery boy in Lowell, Mass. later working for City Lights edited Bob Kaufman's books (also for New Directions) & John Wieners' Selected Poems for Black Sparrow; then senior Editor Hanuman books, arranged my collaborations with Francesco Clemente & catalogued my photo negatives '47-'85, curated first photo show. Xmas 1986 in Japanese restaurant 1st Ave + 10 Street Manhattan.

Allen Ginsberg

1986, printed 1991

gelatin silver print Accession ID 2010.137.19

Gary S. Davis

R.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.

R.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.

John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Double-mirrored bathroom wall, Mapleton Street house Boulder Colorado, self-portrait with R.F., Buddhist-studies major at Naropa Institute, Olympus XA steadied on towel-rack, August 1986.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.

John Hammond ill December 4, 1986

John Hammond ill December 4, 1986

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

Portrait of composer Steven Taylor and half myself & C—III Leica in skyscraper lobby mirror, 58th St. & 6th avenue after radio Broadcast, late night November 13, 1986.

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