A man sits smiling, cross-legged on a bed with his elbows wrapped around his raised knees in this square black and white photograph. The man’s body is angled slightly to our right, and he looks off, grinning, in that direction. His short dark hair is brushed up and back away from his forehead, and he wears dark, round-framed glasses with thick lenses. The man’s white button-down shirt is rolled up to the elbows, and he wears a tie patterned with dark diamonds against a light background. His hairy legs are bare, and he wears argyle-patterned socks. On one arm, he wears a wristwatch and grips his other wrist with that hand. He holds a nearly burned-down cigarette with that other hand. The bedspread has floral patterns, and curtains are blurry on the far right side of the room. Handwriting below the photograph reads, “Carl Solomon in his Prince Street apartment several years after we were locked up together in residence on Sixth Floor Ward, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He got shock treatments, introduced me to Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose and Antonin Artaud's Van Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society translations, I stayed eight months, weekends off. Afterwards, working mid-town at his uncle's Ace Books publications, he gave Kerouac small advance on first On the Road sketches (scroll later rejected), saw Jaime DeAngulo's classic Indian Tales first hard-back through press, and edited William Burroughs' Junkie paperback first edition. New York, 1953. Allen Ginsberg.”