Lynne Wildey, Bob Kaufman, City Lights Book Shop, book signing, Ferlinghetti right rear.

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1984

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 15.3 × 23 cm (6 × 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 20.1 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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Allen Ginsberg, 1961

I got conscious of my kitchen breakfast-table window backyard’s seasons’ daily view, here morning snow-dropped window-sill, white roofed tool-shed, bare branched “trees of Heaven” (ailanthus), fences & fire-escapes lined with snow, N.Y. Times January 23, 1987.

Gary S. Davis, 1987

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Gary S. Davis, 1976

Ellie Dorfman in her big breakfast room, holding up a Xerox copy of N.Y. Times _White Shroud Poem_, January 1985. _Elsa's House Book_ photos fixed many Cambridge Poetry visitors.

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Watching out my kitchen table window for five years now, first leaves on ailanthus trees, rainy day strong wind—I’d snapped photos nearly every week watching the seasons change—here May 18, 1989 from East 12th Street, Lower East Side Manhattan.

Gary S. Davis, 1989

"Head bowed on his shoulder, now and then, he listened." My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet chair 1976 the year he died. See poems in "Don't Grow Old" series for further explanation.

Gary S. Davis, 1976

W.S. Burroughs in his London Burberry raincoat purchased by B.B.C., here March 30, 1985 at opening of Francesco Clemente’s painting show Castelli Gallery — the artist’s figure hand outstretched behind Bill’s left shoulder.

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Patrick Warner in the kitchen 437 East 12th Street, New York March 23, 1985. Harry Smith was present then

Gary S. Davis, 1985

Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.

Gary S. Davis, 1962

$Harry Smith, hermetic film-maker, philosopher, archivist, painter & bibliophile stayed in that little music room in my apartment for nine months recovering from a compression fracture of his right knee. He spent months tape-recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side coming into my Manhattan windows from miles around.$

Harry Smith, hermetic film-maker, philosopher, archivist, painter & bibliophile stayed in that little music room in my apartment for nine months recovering from a compression fracture of his right knee. He spent months tape-recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side coming into my Manhattan windows from miles around.

Gary S. Davis, 1985

Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac’s Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “Court Painter” Robert La Vigne & poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Books shop, Broadway & Columbus Avenue North Beach. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with Jack K., Neal looks good in tee shirt, Howl first printing hadn’t arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco spring 1956.

Gary S. Davis, 1956