Center, John Cage, Merce Cunningham conscious & Jasper Johns hand clasped at Academy induction ceremonial meeting, May 17, 1989.

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1989

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 22 x 32.9 cm (8 11/16 x 12 15/16 in.) sheet: 28 x 35.7 cm (11 x 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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