Allen Ginsberg, 1953
Myself seen by William Burroughs
Gelatin silver print
Myself 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 Ginsberg
Two mythic figures, one capturing the other. Ginsberg was photographing furiously when I met him at a book signing in Boulder, Colorado in 1985 -- he even captured me and a friend!
ReplyDeleteI looked up the Kodak Retina, nice camera. I'm glad he bought it and captured these great shots.
DeleteFrom what you say he must have taken an enormous amount of photographs.