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Gary Snyder 1965 Northwest by Gary S. Davis, Allen Ginsberg — VisualArtsDB

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Gary Snyder 1965 Northwest

Gary Snyder 1965 Northwest

Gary Snyder 1965 Northwest

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1965

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 12.1 × 18.4 cm (4 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.) sheet: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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