I’d asked Robert Frank if he’d make back-jacket photo for Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-'92, we crossed Avenue from his old brick house on Bleeker to leafy empty lot stormfenced near CBGB’s Bowery grunge-rock mecca, he snapped lively Portrait, my Leica M6 strapped on Bike carry-rack, we changed places, I saw his familiar face, September 5, 1993., 1993

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 34.1 × 22.7 cm (13 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

sheet: 50.4 × 40.5 cm (19 13/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.79

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: I’d asked Robert Frank if he’d make back-jacket photo for / Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-'92 [underlined], we crossed Avenue from / his old brick house on Bleeker to leafy empty lot stormfenced / near CBGB’s Bowery grunge-rock mecca, he snapped lively Por- / trait, my Leica M-6 strapped on Bike carry-rack, we changed places, / I saw his familiar face, September 5, 1993. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: GD-AG-111; lower right: GDC-852

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.