Gary S. Davis

Kay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window / the past behind me…” Marriage, 1958.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2018.196.21

Not on view

William Burroughs' later phase as painter, "Shotgun art" a beginning work at his side, "The Bunker" his old loft on New York's Bowery, 1984. He'd recently moved to Lawerence, Kansas, was visiting New York.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.88

Not on view

Czeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.18

Not on view

Lou Reed, poet-musician (hero to avant-guard Czechoslovak intellectual rock-band dissident "Plastic People of the Universe" defended from government persecution by playwright Vaclav Havel and his Charter 77 friends) at make-up table in green room, public Theater Lafayette Street New York, invited by impresario Rose Lesniak (above) to Master Ceremonies, Premiere of Poetry- Music Video Clips by Anne Waldman ("uh! oh! plutonium") and myself ("Father Death Blues"), September 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984, printed 1991

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.35

Not on view

Jim Carroll backstage, Public theater N.Y. September 1984

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.8

Not on view

Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.63

Not on view

An emaciated, bald man lies propped up in a hospital bed in this horizontally oriented black and white photograph. His body is to our left, and he turns to look at us, propped on a pillow on the raised head of the bed. His eyes are sunken, and his hands are curled in loose claws. He wears a polka-dotted hospital gown, and his lower body is covered by a crumpled white sheet. His arms lie on the sheet with rows of white tape holding tubes in place and a long tube runs into his nose. An IV pole with a plastic tube hanging from it extends the height of the image near the right edge, while a cart holding a bottle and another object with a bulbous top stands by to the wall beyond his bed. A white jug is hooked over the bed railing on that side. The artist has written in script underneath the image, “Living Theater genius Julian Beck 48th Street New York hospital room, his stomach-abdomen lining cancer allowed remission for the next year while he made films & video & theater & books from Zurich to Miami; ‘Death is the ultimate corruption,’ he announced, that day I visited, Medical Arts Center, May 1984. Allen Ginsberg.”

Living Theater genius Julian Beck 48th Street New York hospital room, his stomach-abdomen lining cancer allowed remission for the next year while he made films & video & theater & books from Zurich to Miami; “Death is the ultimate corruption,” he announced, that day I visited, Medical Arts Center, May 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.66

Not on view

Poet Michael & Joanna McClure, Cafe Roma a block up Columbus from City Lights Bookstore, October 11, 1984 San Francisco

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.27

Not on view

Rudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.9

Not on view

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.30

Not on view

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.37

Not on view

Gregory Corso, my room Hotel Metropole Brussels May 20, 1984

Allen Ginsberg

1984

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2017.165.31

Not on view

Gary S. Davis

Kay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window / the past behind me…” Marriage, 1958.

Kay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window / the past behind me…” Marriage, 1958.

William Burroughs' later phase as painter, "Shotgun art" a beginning work at his side, "The Bunker" his old loft on New York's Bowery, 1984. He'd recently moved to Lawerence, Kansas, was visiting New York.

William Burroughs' later phase as painter, "Shotgun art" a beginning work at his side, "The Bunker" his old loft on New York's Bowery, 1984. He'd recently moved to Lawerence, Kansas, was visiting New York.

Czeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.

Czeslaw Milosz in Philadelphia sunlight after poetry reading, April 28, 1984.

Jim Carroll backstage, Public theater N.Y. September 1984

Jim Carroll backstage, Public theater N.Y. September 1984

Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.

Julius Orlovsky in woods, hill behind Karme Chöling Meditation Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, September 3 Labor Day mushroom hunting, 1984.

Poet Michael & Joanna McClure, Cafe Roma a block up Columbus from City Lights Bookstore, October 11, 1984 San Francisco

Poet Michael & Joanna McClure, Cafe Roma a block up Columbus from City Lights Bookstore, October 11, 1984 San Francisco

Rudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.

Rudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Tom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.

Gregory Corso, my room Hotel Metropole Brussels May 20, 1984

Gregory Corso, my room Hotel Metropole Brussels May 20, 1984

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