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Allen Ginsberg, Venice by Allen Ginsberg — VisualArtsDB

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Allen Ginsberg, Venice

Allen Ginsberg, Venice

Allen Ginsberg, Venice

1957–1997

Dimensions: 14.2 Centimeters (Measurements) × 21.6 Centimeters (Measurements) × 20.3 Centimeters (Measurements) × 25.4 Centimeters (Measurements)
Genre: Artwork
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US

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Acting tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & relaxed together, Gutterboy on the roof, Empire State building a distant spire, East Twelfth Street September 12, 1991.

Acting tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & relaxed together, Gutterboy on the roof, Empire State building a distant spire, East Twelfth Street September 12, 1991.

Allen Ginsberg, 1991

Hugh MacDiarmid on his 81’st Birthday at home. Scotland 1973.

Hugh MacDiarmid on his 81’st Birthday at home. Scotland 1973.

Allen Ginsberg, 1973

Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' _Naked Lunch_ editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic _Sheeper_ (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--

Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' _Naked Lunch_ editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic _Sheeper_ (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--

Allen Ginsberg, 1984

Paul Bowles, Tangier

Paul Bowles, Tangier

Allen Ginsberg, 1961

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of _Yage Letters_ & _Queer_ mss.

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of _Yage Letters_ & _Queer_ mss.

Allen Ginsberg, 1953

Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.

Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.

Allen Ginsberg, 1993

William Gaddis, novelist of "The Recognitions" at writing desk, Dostoyevsky House museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985

William Gaddis, novelist of "The Recognitions" at writing desk, Dostoyevsky House museum, Leningrad November 30, 1985

Allen Ginsberg, 1985

Jimmie Schuyler dining with artist Bill Katy and friend Raymond Foye from Chelsea Hotel, November 7, 1987 in Soho, Chanterelle Restaurant.

Jimmie Schuyler dining with artist Bill Katy and friend Raymond Foye from Chelsea Hotel, November 7, 1987 in Soho, Chanterelle Restaurant.

Allen Ginsberg, 1987

Allen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Enrico's Cafe Broadway San Francisco March 16, 1985.

Allen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Enrico's Cafe Broadway San Francisco March 16, 1985.

Allen Ginsberg, 1985

Ellie Dorfman waiting for me to get ready to go out on the town, late March weekend, front room of my Lower East side apartment, 1987. Visiting down from Cambridge.

Ellie Dorfman waiting for me to get ready to go out on the town, late March weekend, front room of my Lower East side apartment, 1987. Visiting down from Cambridge.

Allen Ginsberg, 1987

Gregory Corso serious, straightforward looking at me on Jane Faigao's patio, hot tub behind him, he'd taken psychedelic "Ecstasy" powders earlier in the day-- "Empathy" probably be a more accurate name--we were teaching at Narapa Poetics School

Gregory Corso serious, straightforward looking at me on Jane Faigao's patio, hot tub behind him, he'd taken psychedelic "Ecstasy" powders earlier in the day-- "Empathy" probably be a more accurate name--we were teaching at Narapa Poetics School

Allen Ginsberg, 1985

Geoffrey Manough, day after 18th birthday, Poet visiting New York from College Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pasta salad on 1st ave. "I feel like I could Walk / into a forest / and start a fire with every footprint / ...I have found a me long buried / beneath sludge, gripe, and scabs / beneath discrimination and self-hate. / All devices aside, / I can now say that the race is won. / I'm over the line." From _Mystic's Fists_ pamphlet. March 21, 1995.

Geoffrey Manough, day after 18th birthday, Poet visiting New York from College Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pasta salad on 1st ave. "I feel like I could Walk / into a forest / and start a fire with every footprint / ...I have found a me long buried / beneath sludge, gripe, and scabs / beneath discrimination and self-hate. / All devices aside, / I can now say that the race is won. / I'm over the line." From _Mystic's Fists_ pamphlet. March 21, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg, 1995