Gregory Corso and myself double-portrait Siamese poetry twins, my whitewashed-walled room in Tanger, 1961. Peter Orlovsky held camera?, 1961, printed 1990

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.8 x 34 cm (9 x 13 3/8 in.)

sheet: 31.8 x 42 cm (12 1/2 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2008.131.30

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gregory Corso and myself double-portrait Siamese poetry twins, my whitewashed-walled room in Tanger, 1961. Peter Orlovsky held camera?; on verso, by unknown hand, across upper center in graphite: 1961 #44/730 Sid Kaplan print; by artist's hand: Signed AG 9/27/90

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

Exhibition History

2010: Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 59.