Allen GinsbergAlan Ansen visiting from Greece, William Burroughs leaned forward menacing-visaged, Henry Geldzahler's apt. 9th Street N.Y.C. March 30, 1985. Gathering before Francesco Clemente's vernissage.Allen GinsbergAlan Ansen visiting from Greece, William Burroughs leaned forward menacing-visaged, Henry Geldzahler's apt. 9th Street N.Y.C. March 30, 1985. Gathering before Francesco Clemente's vernissage.![Lost-Wax Casting Display: mold, back half [second of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/42ee13e0-817a-4ec8-a8ee-bf7105a21169/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: mold, back half [second of ten steps]
Magdalena AbakanowiczWinged Trunk![Lost-Wax Casting Display: plaster model [first of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/39d362ec-3670-4f00-abfd-4a5ecb26c628/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: plaster model [first of ten steps]![Lost-Wax Casting Display: clay model [third of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/10cf9533-e326-49fa-aaf3-004624ff737d/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: clay model [third of ten steps]
Magdalena AbakanowiczPregnant
David HockneyA Picture of Ourselves
David HockneyThe Blue Guitar
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.![Lost-Wax Casting Display: clay model reduced by thickness of final bronze [fourth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/461f2b9f-1a56-45d7-a41e-cd1da53ad314/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: clay model reduced by thickness of final bronze [fourth of ten steps]
Allen GinsbergLois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986.
Allen GinsbergAndrei Voznesensky, afternoon at Christine's Polish restaurant 12'th St. and 1'st Ave. near my apartment March 29, 1987![Lost-Wax Casting Display: wax model [fifth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/0a358467-151f-4f6d-b632-92fbb23e8faf/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: wax model [fifth of ten steps]
Magdalena AbakanowiczBirth of Fly![Lost-Wax Casting Display: investment mold with coating [eighth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/b06dc802-aace-49a8-9ab9-42bfe5d6d6e1/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: investment mold with coating [eighth of ten steps]
David HockneyParade
David HockneyDiscord Merely Magnifies
David HockneyA Moving Still Life![Lost-Wax Casting Display: wax model with conduits [sixth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/6ff6362d-8e78-4cc1-bd3b-fb15d15fd898/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: wax model with conduits [sixth of ten steps]
Allen GinsbergPatrick Warner in the kitchen 437 East 12th Street, New York March 23, 1985. Harry Smith was present then
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 GinsbergGregory Corso & Nile, Grant Street in front of Trieste Coffeeshop San Francisco March 16, 1985![Lost-Wax Casting Display: chased bronze without patination [tenth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/47b122f0-a01e-4bdf-8432-78dbc20a3b2c/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: chased bronze without patination [tenth of ten steps]
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.
Georgia O'KeeffeFrom a Day with Juan II
David HockneyThe Poet
David HockneyThe Buzzing of the Blue Guitar
Magdalena AbakanowiczBody 81F
Magdalena AbakanowiczCecyna Flower
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 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 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 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.
Magdalena AbakanowiczPuellae (Girls)
Allen GinsbergWedding party, New York Municipal Building Marriage Chambers, waiting room-- second row Simon Pettet poet bridegroom, eternal flower child Rosebud Feliu bride, her son Harley Flanagan of Cro-Mags and his friend Manon Brière, maid of honor with glasses; front row Luc Sante essayist, Maria Saavedra and her fiancé best man Steven Taylor, mid-day, August 1984.
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 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 GinsbergBowery Gallery 121 Wooster St., Simon Carr’s opening, Rosebud Pettet & Lucien Carr.
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!![Lost-Wax Casting Display: investment mold [seventh of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/41a4cbbf-d55c-4d97-9d41-774795b5975c/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: investment mold [seventh of ten steps]
Allen GinsbergRudi DiPrima & William Burroughs with his cigarette lighter gun -- Varsity Townhouse? 1984 Boulder, Colorado.![Lost-Wax Casting Display: mold, front half [second of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/1d2c04d9-f29f-4ca6-80a7-a5aeed508e3d/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: mold, front half [second of ten steps]![Lost-Wax Casting Display: bronze with conduits [ninth of ten steps], Coubertin Factory after Auguste Rodin, 1990](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/7c4ca73d-ec55-4280-a544-3be415573900/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Auguste RodinLost-Wax Casting Display: bronze with conduits [ninth of ten steps]
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 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 GinsbergTom Pickard in his flat London, before April Albert Hall reading. 1984