![Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953., Allen Ginsberg, 1953, printed later](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/eb9c79bf-860b-4bb2-9f54-063d71f4fab3/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Allen GinsbergBill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.Allen GinsbergBill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.
Allen GinsbergGeorgian Writers' Union officials, tableaux actresses, audience front rows, Portrait of Titsian Tabidze onstage Tbilisi Music House December 10, 1985 dedication of Museum memorial to Poet friend of Pasternak killed by Stalin 1937. Bella Akhmadulina urged me to attend.
Allen GinsbergRudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.
Allen GinsbergMe asleep, snapped by Peter Orlovsky in our little whitewash-walled room Tangier 1961
Allen GinsbergJoe Richey walking down main street of Bluefields, Nicaragua's East coast port, January 29, 1987, we were hosted by Sandinista poet Carlos Rigby
Allen GinsbergA friend's house in M'raksh! Paul Bowles rear, Arab fellow and host who shared rent with Paul. 1961
Allen GinsbergJack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry Wharf, we used to wander docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & thru truck parking lots along East River singing rawbone Blues, Leadbelly’s “Black Girl” or “Eli Eli,” chanting Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s “O Harp & Altar of the Fury fused!” or “Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above. Time of his _Doctor Sax_ & _The Subterraneans_, Burroughs was in town, up from Mexico, New York, Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergVisiting R.D. Laing at his Hampstead house with Tom Pickard fellow poet, he greeted us jolly and sad, household breaking up, wife divorcing him, having'd been drinking considerably, Tom snapped this photo with my camera, London April 25, 1985.
Allen GinsbergAndrei Voznesensky, afternoon at Christine's Polish restaurant 12'th St. and 1'st Ave. near my apartment March 29, 1987
Allen GinsbergJohn Murao in Shig's bedroom, Grant Street San Francisco Mid-March 1985
Allen GinsbergOliver Ray, aspiring writer, adept at word processors, one time archivist in Francesco Clemente's Manhattan studio, recent Calvin Klein ad model, drove from N.Y. to Ann Arbor to attend Patti Smith & myself at Buddhist money benefit performance- limping from legs broken in fall off Mexican Ocean Cliffside one night months before. -- here in Shaman Drum store for Patti Smith's _Early Work_ book signing, February 17, 1995
Allen GinsbergGary Snyder, his small house-garden on Nishinomiya-cho, Kita-ku section near Dai-tokuji temple, in monk’s travelling outfit, wearing Unsui’s indigo-dyed cotton training robe (koromo), square handsewn Rakusu cloth hung round his neck, thick belt to guard zazen sitting posture & belly warmth, and dark-browned Ajirokasa basket-hat stained with juice of green persimmons. Kyoto, Japan July 1963.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso and myself double-portrait Siamese poetry twins, my whitewashed-walled room in Tanger, 1961. Peter Orlovsky held camera?
Allen GinsbergBill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!
Allen GinsbergR.D. Laing in residence at Naropa Institute, planning to voyage on lecture tour, asked me to visit and make useful photograph. Boulder, Colorado July 7, 1987.
Allen GinsbergPatrick Warner in the kitchen 437 East 12th Street, New York March 23, 1985. Harry Smith was present then
Allen GinsbergDick McBride, returned from England where he'd been distributing City Lights Books, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline facing my shadow through the door of Cafe Trieste, Grant Street San Francisco, March 16, 1985.
Allen Ginsberg“. . . dreaming out the window eat my gruel / as ailanthus trees bud & grow thick green, seaweed in rainy Atlantis, / lose leaves after snowfall, sit bare branched in January’s rusty winds? / Snap photographs focus’d on the clothesline, courtyard chimneypots a block away?” See “May Days 1988,” _Cosmopolitan Greetings_ book. Here new buds of May, raindrops on the clothesline, the picture taken four days after poem was written — Lower East Side N.Y. May 7, 1988.
Allen GinsbergThe Living Theater family departing founder Julian Beck's interment in North Jersey cemetery, September 19, 1985. Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach led widow actress- Judith Malina forward weeping goodbye, she's held by daughter Isha center holding hands with son Garrick Beck in beret, Judith's tall husband-to-be Hanon Reznikov gazing down behind them wearing yarmulke skull-cap; extreme right Anne Tardos with aleatory musician- Poet Jackson Machour. This anarchist- Pacifist artists' troupe anticipated in first Postwar U.S. Anti- Nuclear peace protest 1957, refusing with Catholic Workers group to enter A-Bomb shelter during New York state-wide war drill.
Allen GinsbergLafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in _Desolation Angels_ —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.
Allen GinsbergWilliam S. Burroughs paused a moment before one of half-dozen raw plywood bigger-than-life silhouettes cut out for him to collage, paint, stamp, spraycan and/or shotgun, Prepared by then-assistant neighbor friend Steven Lowe whose house we visited, Lawrence, Kansas March 19, 1992.
Allen GinsbergCzeslaw Milosz waiting his turn to read poetry, Philadelphia, late March 1984 —
Allen GinsbergBerenice Abbott May 14, 1985
Allen GinsbergCharles Olson 1963 Vancouver. Warren Tallman's house. Bobbie. Robert Creeley Working Proof.
Allen GinsbergWalking down Second Avenue in East 20's I stopped for a meal in Sushi bar, went to the tiny bathroom and saw myself several dozen times multiplied, Aetat 59. September 24, 1985.
Allen GinsbergMy uncle Abe Ginsberg, Daughters of Israel Geriatric Facility, West Orange, New Jersey, April 13, 1986. He was too weak to sip from a straw. He lifted his hand as I stood at the foot of the bed with camera. He died a week and half later. He had whispered, “I love you” when I first came in his room.
Allen GinsbergBowery Gallery 121 Wooster St., Simon Carr’s opening, Rosebud Pettet & Lucien Carr.
Allen GinsbergPeter Wolf, musician-singer at Ellie Dorfman's living room table February 1, 1985 -- Cambridge, Franklin Street.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso holding print of Kerouac Lowell Mass. Memorial Park in front of going-out-of-business book sale, Roger Richards' shop on Greenwich Avenue N.Y. September 10, 1989
Allen GinsbergVisit with Julius Orlovsky, hadn't seen him several years, now age 56, front parlor in small town Kirkwood N.Y. residence where with half-dozen Binghamton State Hospital patients subsidized by state funds he was supervised by Mr. & Mrs. Finch in their large family house, April 4, 1987.
Allen GinsbergMy aunt Edie Leegant (Uncle Max Frohman's sister), Santa Monica 1985, with her room mate Mollie, and granddaughter's photo in black sweater over her shoulder. "Max's sister Edie works, 17 years bookkeeper at Ginabelle's-" Kaddish. Now she's 82 years old & spry, walked me two miles to cousin Oscar's house after this photo was made.
Allen GinsbergTom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984
Allen GinsbergGeorge Condo in his studio townhouse East 64th Street, N.Y. January 15, 1993
Allen GinsbergPoet John Giorno & Bill's secretary Jim Grauerholz aghast at William Burroughs' whip-fast flexible blackjack draw from the hip. Bowery muggers and street junkies try to steal his wallet, watch out! Age 71 Burroughs returned from Lawrence, Kansas to his old "Bunker" loft (formerly a gym locker-room) with _Place of Dead Roads_ mss. Scar on Giorno's belly (March 26, 1985) from cancer operation ten years earlier, he'd set up black cloth'd wall with stage-lights for his Buddhist rock & roll poetry rehearsals. A bunch of Queers me too.
Allen GinsbergWilliam 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 GinsbergWavy Gravy & his rubber nose, giant Seva Benefit organized by Ram Dass at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan November 26, 1988, seven thousand souls attending, Wavy the M.C. for part of the evening, here in a side chapel south of the altar.
Allen GinsbergJack Kerouac passing corner bar Avenue B & East 7th N.Y., we went out for a walk along Tompkins Park, September 1953
Allen GinsbergDorothy Norman (b. 1903-), Philadelphia, libertarian editor, author intimate of Nehru, Indira Gandhi often stayed in her house on East 70th Manhattan, I met Martin Luther King in this same room, Companion of Alfred Stieglitz who photographed her form so many times her hands, her own photographs of him are seen in several books. I used to visit here, eat cookies & drinks tea, several times a year. Still Alive 1995!
Allen GinsbergPeter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen...visiting from Venezia to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier March-July 1961.
Allen GinsbergGeorge Condo before large Canvas “Adoration of St. Lucy” nailed to wall of his then studio in townhouse East 64th Street Manhattan, first time I visited him, January 15, 1993.
Allen GinsbergGregory Corso & Nile, Grant Street in front of Trieste Coffeeshop San Francisco March 16, 1985
Allen GinsbergLois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness alterations in Literature & American Heart Land, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergPablo and Robert Frank visiting from Bronx State Hospital, my living room on East 12th Street, October 1984. Same noses.
Allen GinsbergJohn Hammond ill December 4, 1986
Allen GinsbergMyself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d 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, Jack’s _The Subterraneans_ records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d 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 ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of “The Green Automobile” poem to Cassady, Fall 1953.
Allen GinsbergNeal Cassady driving his oldsmobile down Bayshore Highway, San Francisco to Los Gatos, circa 1954, I sat in the backseat, the car rocked with Rhythm & Blues Radio.; Self-Portrait in Darkroom of Associated Press Office, Rockefeller Center Manhattan, I was a copyboy on the night shift, 1948. A.G.; Street cornerman’s tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City: Jack Kerouac, myself in sombrero, Peter Orlovsky coat over shoulder, Gregory Corso kneeling with Lafcadio Orlovsky age 16, A.D. 1956. See Kerouac’s _Desolation Angels_ for account of this trip.
Allen GinsbergLawrence Ferlinghetti taking morning expresso at Café Puccini a block or so up Columbus from his City Lights Books, March 16, 1985.