Jimmy Osterberg, the musician Iggy Pop, in his new apartment Tompkins Square East-- Don Was, producing his recent album, had rushed me to run over to Pop's house in same neighborhood I lived & try taking photo for cover-- not used, but I liked this clean uplifted finger. Lower East Side Manhattan April 14, 1990.
1990, printed 1996
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
-
Medium
gelatin silver print
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
image: 23.8 × 23.7 cm (9 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Jimmy Osterberg, the musician Iggy Pop, in his new apartment / Tompkins Square East-- Don Was, producing his recent album, / had rushed me to run over to Pop's house in same neighborhood I / lived & try taking photo for cover-- not used, but I liked this clean / uplifted finger. Lower East Side Manhattan April 14, 1990.; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; lower right stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR [by unknown hand in graphite: 4/4/90] / LOCATION [by unknown hand in graphite: NEW YORK] / IMAGE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 66] / SLEEVE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 1311.2] / PRINTED BY [by unknown hand in graphite: SID KAPLAN] / NOTE [by unknown hand in graphite: CAPTIONED 10/31/96]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-266; bottom right in graphite: GDC-650