Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1953

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 16.8 × 25.9 cm (6 5/8 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 35.1 cm (10 7/8 × 13 13/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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