Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 2: Lumière/Physique (Light/Physics)Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 2: Lumière/Physique (Light/Physics)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleSix fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 3A: Photos et cie (Photos and Company)
Joan MiróPlate (folio 76) from Almario
Joan MiróUntitled from the series Les Orfèvres
Allen GinsbergKay MacDonough, Nile, & Gregory Corso March 16, 1985 San Francisco Front of Trieste Morning Hangout Coffeeshop Grant Street.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso embraced by intimate friend, The Bistro, Jane & W. 4th Street, December 21, 1992.
Joan MiróAlmario
Allen GinsbergRichard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York
Allen GinsbergMy father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet Armchair, last year of his life 1976. See "Don't Grow Old."
Allen GinsbergJuanita Lieberman had met Peter Orlovsky at Naropa in early 1980's, was now working in my house as secretary March 3, 1985 - went on to nice job publishing at Paragon House, signed up Carl Solomon's Emergency Messages.
Allen GinsbergRichard Baker Roshi whose teacher was Suzuki Roshi soon after he stepped down as Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center to found Santa Fé, N.M. & Crestone Colorado Zen Meditation Centers, and give transmission to Philip Whalen, Sensei. Here visiting apartment on East 12’th Street after return from East Europe where he’d taught zen sitting groups, we caught up on our samsaric adventures. Baker Roshi had hosted 1965 U.C. Berkeley Poets’ convocation, we’d remained friends, especially thru his kindness to poet Whalen whom he’d invited to S.F. Zen. Center. N.Y. Fall 1984.
Allen GinsbergLarry Rivers with his portrait of poet John Ashbery’s poem “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.
Fernando BoteroPainter of Still Lifes
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 11: Réalité/Logique (Reality/Logic)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 10: Roman/Economie (Romance/Economy)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 1: Obscur/Chimie (Dark/Chemistry)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleFrance/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 6: Expression/Français (Expression/French)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleSix fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 5A: Nous Trois (We Three)
Joan MiróBirds of Montroig V (Ocells de Montroig V)
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky coming from bath, Jerry Heiserman (Sufi "Hassan") & friend, Kitchen evening, February 19, 1984 New York.
Allen GinsbergOut my New York kitchen window December 3, 1987, bare leaves, year end.
Allen GinsbergFormal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Playwright Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chairman/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from local writers—November 19, 1985.
Allen GinsbergHarry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident alchemist- philosopher at the Kerouac Poetics school for several years till his last trip back to Manhattan to receive Obie award for life - long preservation of American Folk Music, and death soon after in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel.
Allen GinsbergOld-timer & survivor Herbert E. Huncke, Beat literary pioneer who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & myself to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945. From ’48 on he penned several remarkable volumes especially the classic _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, autobiographic anecdotal tales (Cherry Valley, 1970). Here age 78 in basement apartment backyard East 7th Street near Avenue C, Lower East Side New York. — May 18, 1993.
Joan MiróWoman
Joan MiróPlate (folio 8) from Almario
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleSix fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 6A: Avant et apres (Before and After)
Allen GinsbergTrieste Coffeeshop Corner Gang March 16, 1985 including Kaye MacDonough next to Jack Micheline, Nile held by Gregory Corso in front of Neeli Cherkovski and his house mate Jesse Cabrera.
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleScénario du film Passion
Joan MiróPlate (folio 72) from Almario
Allen GinsbergR.D. Laing on his front porch Mapelton Street Boulder Colorado. Then in residence at Naropa Institute he planned voyage on lecture tour, invited me to make usable photo. July 7, 1987.
Allen GinsbergShig Murao & Dick McBride, Trieste Coffeeshop Grant Street, San Francisco March 16, 1985—Dick visiting from England.
Allen GinsbergOlga Rudge at Ezra Pound Centenary Conference, U. of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1985. We'd met with Pound in Rapallo & Venice 1967.
Allen GinsbergCarrying sides of Beef from truck to Market stall Bluefields harbor-front street, East Coast of Nicaragua, Youth with leather apron and bloodstained elbows and trousers was shyly amused at my interest, January 29, 1986.
Allen GinsbergLucien Carr, New York City, March 3, 1985
Allen GinsbergMidsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.
Allen GinsbergYevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.
Allen GinsbergNicanor 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 GinsbergVictor Hernandez Cruz & friends at banquet ceremony for American Book Awards by Before Columbus Foundation at Miami Book Fair International, November 17, 1990.
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie MiévilleSix fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 1A: Y a personne (Nobody's There)
Joan MiróPlate (folio 22) from Almario
Joan MiróPlate (folio 34) from Almario
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Enrico's Cafe Broadway San Francisco March 16, 1985.
Allen GinsbergWM. Burroughs, loft window 33 Greene Street New York, December 16, 1986.
Allen GinsbergCreeley patient with me, July 1984, Naropa Summer Poetics: early supper.
Allen GinsbergBill Wyman
Allen GinsbergForeign Language Department building, Baoding University, two hours train south of Beijing, November 1984, students at the door—down the avenue past an athletic field is entrance-gate to campus. I taught Whitman, W.C. Williams, Kerouac, Burroughs and Gregory Corso’s writing to eager provincial students for three weeks, and sang lyrics by William Blake.
Allen GinsbergWillem 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."