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Steven Taylor by Gary S. Davis, Allen Ginsberg — VisualArtsDB

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Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1980–1990

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 18.2 × 25.2 cm (7 3/16 × 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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Korean War Vet Ken Babbs, Captain of Ken Kesey's "Trips Festival" bus, co piloting Neal Cassady on Amphetamine at wheel rolling up highway to Millbrook estate near Poughkeepsie N.Y. where Dr. Tim O'Leary's Castalia Foundation was then experimenting with D.M.T. on half hour psychedelic trip useful for psychiatric sessions. Burglar Gordon Liddy, then assistant D.A. in Poughkeepsie raided the Foundation a number of times illegally lacking search warrants during that season, so Castalia folk were jittery on arrival of honking Day-Glo graffit'd "Merry Prankster" Further bus which'd been driven cross-country S.F to N.Y. via Texas before Fall 1964 Presidentiad, "A Vote for Goldwater is a Vote for Fun" logo painted above bus side windows, L.S.D. Kool-Aid in pitcher in icebox. Kesey & Pranksters had met with Jack Kerouac a day before . . .

Gary S. Davis, 1964

I couldn't get over his beauty, he allowed me to photograph him thus. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier 1961, was hitchhiking thru.

I couldn't get over his beauty, he allowed me to photograph him thus. Lance Hendrickson, Tangier 1961, was hitchhiking thru.

Allen Ginsberg, 1961

Carl Solomon on Sunday 1983 Springtime, Bronx, we spent all afternoon, he caught 6 fish, I ate them.

Carl Solomon on Sunday 1983 Springtime, Bronx, we spent all afternoon, he caught 6 fish, I ate them.

Gary S. Davis, 1983

Jesse Cabrera Lover & Neeli Cherkovski, Kaye MacDonough, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline & friends, plateglass of Trieste Coffeeshop Grant Street San Francisco March 16, 1985, Camera snapshot by Gregory Corso's finger.

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Gary S. Davis, 1985

City Lights Bookstore visit—Philip Whalen poet Zen Sensei, anonymous eyeglassed onlooker, Amy and Michael McClure with shopowner poet-painter Laurence Ferlinghetti standing framed in door; below Nanao Sakaki Japonesia’s Bum-Academy longhair poet king, and John Montgomery kneeling beside him, Proud to be Characterized by Jack Kerouac 30 years earlier as a foolish mountaineer in _The Dharma Bums_. San Francisco, May 22, 1988.

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Gary S. Davis, 1948

Robert Frank at his kitchen table, Bleeker Street house, casual visit, November 8, 1988, New York City.

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Allen Ginsberg, 1988

Open Market, Beijing, China

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William S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tangier 1961.

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Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko 3 A.M. at kitchen table after long night drinking and taped conversation re great unpublished Soviet writers & mss., February 18, 1986.

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko 3 A.M. at kitchen table after long night drinking and taped conversation re great unpublished Soviet writers & mss., February 18, 1986.

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Francesco Clemente at his opening Mary Boone Gallery March 30, 1985 -- I liked the portrait of the monster & asked him to stand next to it.

Francesco Clemente at his opening Mary Boone Gallery March 30, 1985 -- I liked the portrait of the monster & asked him to stand next to it.

Gary S. Davis, 1985

Willem De Kooning in his studio Springs Long Island. I visited with my stepmother, Edith, his fly unbuttoned, he showed me his brushes lined up neatly on a table, "I wash them, clean them all myself," and said of his new canvases, "I'm just a sign painter."

Willem De Kooning in his studio Springs Long Island. I visited with my stepmother, Edith, his fly unbuttoned, he showed me his brushes lined up neatly on a table, "I wash them, clean them all myself," and said of his new canvases, "I'm just a sign painter."

Allen Ginsberg, 1985