Peter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen...visiting from Venezia to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier March-July 1961.
1961, printed 1989
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.5 x 30.5 cm (8 1/16 x 12 in.)
sheet: 27.6 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2011.146.34
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: Peter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Medit- / erranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen [?] visiting from Venezia to help type new / apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from [underline] Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a / gambler at casino, Ian sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. / Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muneria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tanger March-July 1961. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: SL printed 12/89 / 1961/47/829; bottom center: GD-AG-13; bottom right: GDC-847