Davis, Gary S.
Timeline
1920s
Dorothy Norman (b. 1903-), Philadelphia, libertarian editor, author intimate of Nehru, Indira Gandhi often stayed in her house on East 70th Manhattan, I met Martin Luther King in this same room, Companion of Alfred Stieglitz who photographed her form so many times her hands, her own photographs of him are seen in several books. I used to visit here, eat cookies & drinks tea, several times a year. Still Alive 1995!
Out my New York kitchen window December 3, 1987, bare leaves, year end.
Alfred Stieglitz, Lake George, New York
1940s
Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair first back from Galveston-Dakar Doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the ship's fantail, smoking what? In New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947.
Archways, Beijing, China
Soldiers on Trolley, Beijing, China
Doctor with Street Display, Beijing, China
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1950s
Louis Ginsberg in our house 416 East 34th Street Paterson, late 1950's?
155 East 52nd Street
Fond Kiki William's friend, W.S. Burroughs, Chris Wanklin at another table in T-shirt, Soco Chico Tanger Maroc circa mid-fifties, negative in my archives.
Bill must've said something funny from the floor, we were taking snapshots of each other on same couch, my $13.00 Kodak Retina pawn-shop camera in Burroughs' hands. He stayed in the apartment East 7th Street between Avenues B & C most of that Fall 1953.
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1960s
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Lance Hendrickson, Tangier, 1961. We met in street, he was hiking thru Europe, stayed a week, chaste, but allowed me to photograph him thus. Saw him again in San Francisco 1963 w/ a motorcycle.
Gregory Corso on Boulevard Pasteur Tangier 1961. Psilocybin Days. Arab & French Posters.
William S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tangier 1961.
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1970s
1980s
1990s
Victor Hernandez Cruz & friends at banquet ceremony for American Book Awards by Before Columbus Foundation at Miami Book Fair International, November 17, 1990.
Bob Dylan, Tompkins Square Park, ten minutes later we were chased out onto Avenue A by homeless men sleeping in the bandshell who threw bottles at us mistakenly thinking we were taking their pictures. May 21, 1990.
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.
Publisher-hero Barney Rossett whose Grove Press legal battles liberated U.S. literature & film — at Tower Books’ N.Y. symposium on new 90’s Censorship Politics, June 20, 1991.
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