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

1961, printed 1990

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows two individuals. One person is in focus and facing the camera directly, visible from the chest up, while the other individual is partially shown from the shoulders up and turned three-quarters towards the left. Both individuals have curly hair and are positioned in front of a plain wall.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.131.30

  • Copyright

    Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64073244

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