Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926-) & Gregory Corso (b. 1930-), modest & immodest self-portraits, we weren't lovers but poets & jackanapes smiling and serious in turn, candid facing Kodak-Retina lens delayed-action snap, camera propped on chair other end of small white-washed room top-floor little Hotel Armor a block downhill Calle Cook from 1 Rue Magellan Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tangier, Morocco August 1961

1961, printed 1995

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image depicts two men in separate adjacent frames, standing upright facing the camera. In the left frame, the man on the left has crossed arms, while the man on the right has his hands folded in front of his groin. In the right frame, their positions are reversed. The man on the left has short, dark hair and wears glasses, while the man on the right has voluminous, curly hair. Both men have relaxed expressions and subtle smiles. They are nude in a white-washed room.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    left panel: 26.19 × 20.8 cm (10 5/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
    right panel: 26.19 × 20.64 cm (10 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.48 × 50.48 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.137.32

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926 --) & Gregory Corso (b. 1930), modest & immodest self portraits, we weren't / lovers but poets & jackanapes smiling and serious in turn, candid facing Kodak-Retina lens delayed-act- / ion snap, camera propped on chair other end of small white-washed room top-floor little Hotel Armor / a block down hill Calle Cook from 1 Rue Magellan Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tanger [sic] Maroc August 1961. / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right: 2ND; artist's stamp, center: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: AG signed 8/95 / SK 8/95; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF45632H, by unknown hand, bottom center right in graphite: GD-AG-74; bottom right in graphite: GDC-997

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