Bill must've said something funny from the floor, we were taking snapshots of each other on same couch, my $13.00 Kodak Retina pawn-shop camera in Burroughs' hands. He stayed in the apartment East 7th Street between Avenues B & C most of that Fall 1953., 1953, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.1 x 29 cm (7 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 28.5 x 35.2 cm (11 1/4 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2008.131.33

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: Bill must've said something funny from the floor, we were taking snapshots of each other on same couch, my $13.00 Kodak Retina pawn-shop camera in Burroughs' hands. He stayed in the apartment East 7th Street between Avenues B & C most of that Fall 1953.; on verso, across center, stamped in black ink: From the archive of Allen Ginsberg ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown-hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-46; across lower right: 1953 15/139; in lower right corner: GDC-946

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. 43.