Gary S. Davis
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.
Evacuation of Beijing, China
Buying and Selling Birds, Beijing, China
Funeral Procession, Beijing, China
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1950s
155 East 52nd Street
Louis Ginsberg in our house 416 East 34th Street Paterson, late 1950's?
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.
Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953.
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1960s
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Bill Burroughs "impersonating a detective with magnifying glass in hand ... Sherlock Holmes, or shabby Chinese detective in Saigon ... look at that stain on the suit." He took photos of sky, boys, streets, then photos of these photos, by stages drawing forth essences, re-photographing images of boy-stuff or blue sky, here collaged under glass plates on his bureau. Some cut-up photos from magazines, left. Calligraphy on Wardrobe closet Burroughs' adaptation of Brion Gysin's brushwork. Tangier Summer 1961. Bill's words above, 1988.
A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961
Gregory Corso musing on cot in room Peter Orlovsky & I shared in Tangier 1961 - we interviewed each other and Burroughs for first issue of City Lights Journal for Protection of All Beings, lots of talk.
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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.
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.
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.
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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