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Ginsbergs life in the 1950s and beyond. Click through to preview aselection of images from the show.

Allen Ginsberg, Now Jack as I warned you far back as 1945, if you keep going

home to live with your Memre youll find yourself wound tighter and tighter

in her apron strings till youre an old man and cant escape William Seward

Burroughs camping as an Andr Gide-ian sophisticate lecturing the earnest

Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac who listens soberly dead-

pan to the most intelligent man in America for a funny seconds charade in

my living room 206 East 7th Street Apt 16, Manhattan, one evening Fall 1953,

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1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 11 1/8 x 17 3/8 in. (28.3 x 44.2 cm),

National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All

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Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair just back from

Galveston-Dakar doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio-man on the

ships fantail, smoking what? In New York harbor, circa October 30, 1947, 1947,

Gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 10 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (27.6 x 18.8 cm),

National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg, LLC.

All rights reserved.

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Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and his love of that year the star-crossd Natalie

Jackson conscious of their rles in Market Street Eternity: Cassady had been

prototype for Jack Kerouacs 1950 On the Road saga hero Dean Moriarty, as

later in 1960s hed taken the drivers wheel of Ken Keseys psychedelic-era

day-glo painted Merry Prankster crosscountry bus Further. Neals

illuminated American automobile mania, unspeakably enthusiastic

friendship & erotic energy had already written his name in bright-lit signs of

our literary imaginations before movies were made imitating his charm. Thats

why we stopped under the marquee to fix the passing hand on the watch, San

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Francisco, maybe March 1955, 1955, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 9 7/8

x 14 7/8 in. (24.9 x 38 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012

The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lovers eyes,

afternoon light in window, cover of just- published Junkie propped in shadow

above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flats

old wallpaper. Hed come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me

editing Yage Letters & Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953, 1953, gelatin

silver print, printed 198497, 7 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (19.2 x 29 cm), National Gallery

of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

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Allen Ginsberg, Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouacs 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 hadnt arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just

hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San

Francisco spring 1956, 1956, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 11 1/8 x 16

3/4 in. (28.3 x 42.6 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012

The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

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Allen Ginsberg, We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of

Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Carlo Crivellis green-

hued Christ-face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skullhere

Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan,

1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 8 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (22.3 x 25.1 cm),

National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC.


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Allen Ginsberg, Rebecca Ginsberg, Buba, wife of Pincus, laundry-man later

tobacco-store owner, my paternal grandmother (b. Russia near Kaminetz-

Podolska May 1869d. July 1962) visiting her elder son Louis house, here 84

years old at table for Seder preparations. Shed attended Adult Education

English classes in Newark 14 years earlier, written patriotic essay declaring

God Blast America! Younger son Uncle Abe & daughters Aunt Rose, Clara &

H.S. teacher Hannah were her children. Dining room 428 East 34th Street,

Paterson New Jersey April 1953, 1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 6

1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (16.5 x 24.2 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis.

2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, his attic room 9 Rue Gt-le-Coeur, wooden

angel hung from wall right, window looked on courtyard and across Seine

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half-block away to spires of St. Chapelle on Ile St. Louis. Gregorys Gasoline

was ready at City Lights, in attic he prepared Marriage, Power, Army,

Police, Hair and Bomb for Happy Birthday of Death book. Henri Michaux

visited, liked Corsos mad children of soda-caps phrasing. Burroughs came

from Tangier to live one flight below, shaping Naked Lunch manuscript, Peter

Orlovsky and I had window on street two flights downstairs, room with two-

burner gas stove, we ate together often, rent $30 a month. Id begun Kaddish

litany, Peter his Frist Poem., 1956, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 14 x

14 in. (35.6 x 35.5 cm),National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The

Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East

5th Street, N.Y.C., he looked by then like his late father, red-faced corpulent

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W. C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. Id brought

back from visiting Timothy Leary of Millbrook Psychedelic Community, Fall

1964,1964, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (29.5 x 20.8

cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg

LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, 1953, gelatin silver print,4 x 6 in. (10.2 x

15.2 cm), Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg,


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Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, 1953, gelatin silver print, 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm),

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg, LLC. All

rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky at James Joyces grave, Zurich Switzerland

December 1980, we climbed up the cemetery and found Joyces statue

snowcovered, brushed it off his head, 1980, gelatin silver print, printed 1984

97, 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (19 x 28.5 cm), collection of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen

Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

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Allen Ginsberg, Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought

2d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side

between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan

Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jacks The Subterraneans

records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts hed sent

from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee (Mardou Fox of The

Subterraneans) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish &

Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like

Leshkos corner 7th & A, rent was only 14 of my monthly $120 wage as

newspaper copyboy. Time of The Green Automobile poem to Cassady, Fall

1953, 1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 11 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (28.6 x 43.8

cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg


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Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, 1955, gelatin silver print, 4 x 2 3/4 in. (10 x 6.9

cm), Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg, LLC. All

rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting

Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel Sunset Cox,

The Letter-Carriers Friend in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A,

Lower East Side; hes making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-

bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The

Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953,


Manhattan, 1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 11 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (29.2 x

45.1 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen


Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh


Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into

books not published till decades later (as Queer, 1985) Lower East Side Fall

1953, 1953, gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 10 1/4 x 7 in. (26.9 x 17.7 cm),

National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC.


Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, 1953, gelatin silver print, 3 x 4 3/8 in. (7.6 x 11.2

cm), Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg, LLC. All

rights reserved.

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Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers with his portrait of poet John Ashberys poem

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Pyrography (1977), his studio Southhampton L. I. July 7, 1985. He worked out

with weightlift instructor too that day, as well as new styrofoam 3-D

painting,1985, gelatin silver print, printed 198597, 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (28.2 x 19.9

cm),National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg


Allen Ginsberg, Publisher-hero Barney Rosset whose Grove Press legal battles

liberated U.S. literature & film at Tower Books N.Y. symposium on new 90s

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Censorship Politics, June 20, 1991, 1991, gelatin silver print, printed 199197, 8

1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (21.5 x 14.5 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis.

2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg,

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, railroad brakemans rule-book in pocket couch-

pillows airing on fire-escape three flights up overlooking backyard

clotheslines south. Hed already published The Town & the City, completed a


treasury of half-dozen unprinted classic volumes including On the Road,

Visions of Cody, Doctor Sax, early books of Blues and Dreams, & had begun

The Subterraneans adventurous love affair with Alene Lee, Mardou Fox.

Alene typed for W. S. Burroughs then in residence editing Yage Letters &

Queer mss., unpublishable that decade, censorship ruled. I scribed The Green

Automobile, Gregory Corso visited that season, 206 East 7th Street near

Tompkins Park, Manhattan, probably September 1953, 1953, gelatin silver

print, printed 198497, 13 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (34.8 x 23.5 cm), National Gallery of

Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, Francesco Clemente looking over hand-script album with new

poem Id written out for his Blake-inspired watercolor illuminations, wed

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done two books before; entrance corner of his loft overlooking Great Jones

Street Manhattan, October 1984. He liked this picture, 1984, gelatin silver

print, printed 198497, 15 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (40.4 x 27 cm), National Gallery of

Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, I sat for decades at morning breakfast tea looking out my

kitchen window, one day recognized my own world the familiar background, a

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giant wet brick-walled undersea Atlantis garden, waving ailanthus

(stinkweed) Trees of Heaven, with chimney pots along Avenue A topped by

Stuyvesant Town apartments upper floors two blocks distant on 14th Street, I

focusd on the raindrops along the clothesline. Things are symbols of

themselves, said Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche. New York City August 18, 1984,

1984,gelatin silver print, printed 198497, 16 1/2 x 11 in. (42 x 28 cm), National

Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights

reserved.

Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, 11 PM late March 1985, being driven home

to 222 Bowery. Experimenting with hand held half-second Rolleiflex


AllenGinsberg JackKerouac NealCassadyFiled Under:

exposure, camera upside down for view, Burroughs phantom in street light

stop sign illuminations fuzzy, couldnt move back further to focus sharper, I

was in rear seat, 1985, gelatin silver print, printed 198597, 7 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.

(19.7 x 18.9 cm), National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. 2012 The Allen


Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, 1955, gelatin silver print, 2 3/4 x 4 in. (6.9 x 10

cm), Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All

rights reserved.

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