Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair first back from Galveston-Dakar Doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the ship's fantail, smoking what? In New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947., 1947, printed 1990

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27.6 x 18.8 cm (10 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.4 x 28.1 cm (13 15/16 x 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2009.103.1

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: Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair first back from Galveston-Dakar Doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the ship's fantail, smoking what? in New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: PF46078H GD-AG-8; across lower left: 1947 #10/113 Sid Kaplan print 4/90; in lower right corner: GDC-591

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

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. 37.