Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York

1984, printed 1992

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image is of a man from the waist up. He is holding a photograph and looking directly at the camera. He has a distinctive hairstyle with wavy, light-colored hair and is wearing large, dark-framed glasses. He is dressed in a light-colored shirt with rolled-up sleeves. In the background, there is a ladder, a tripod, and a large matte board. The setting appears to be a photography studio with a plain light-colored wall and various studio equipment visible. Handwritten text is at the bottom of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.146.30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic / naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round eachother's waists. / He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, / September 1984, New York Allen Ginsberg; on verso signed by artist, center right in graphite: 5/14/92 AG [2 illegible words]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-358; bottom right: 217/9377 / [circled] 1984 / GDC-824

Wikidata ID

Q64073519

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