William S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tangier 1961.

1961, printed 1990

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image depicts a man seated, facing the camera with a steady gaze. His face and one of his hands, slightly blurred in motion, are in focus. He has fine facial features, short and neatly combed back hair, and wears large, thick-framed glasses. The man is dressed in a suit jacket, collared shirt, and tie. The background is a plain, light-colored wall with a handwritten note at the bottom of the photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.65 × 20 cm (5 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.94 × 25.88 cm (7 1/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.137.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, along bottom in black ink: William S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tanger [sic] 1961. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by artist's hand, upper right in graphite: 1961 Tangers / SK Print + AG Signed / 9/30/90; top right in graphite: H

Wikidata ID

Q64073460

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