Harry Smith returned to visit my house, his old room behind him, about a year after he’d migrated upstate to Cooperstown with two dozen boxes of his paintings, books and several hundred hours of tapes he’d made on my Sony Pro Walkman of the ambient sounds of lower Manhattan (climaxing July 4, 1985) – microphone wrapped in towel on windowsill sucking in dog barks & auto horns from the battery to lower East Side for months. Now it is August 30th, 1986., 1986

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.5 × 32.8 cm (8 7/8 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 27.8 × 35.2 cm (10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.67

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Harry Smith returned to visit my house, his old room behind him, about a year after he’d / migrated upstate to Cooperstown with two dozen boxes of his paintings, books and several hundred / hours of tapes he’d made on my Sony Pro Walkman of the ambient sounds of lower Manhattan ( cli- / maxing July 4, 1985) – microphone wrapped in towel on windowsill sucking in dog barks & auto horns from / the battery to lower East Side for months. Now it is August 30th, 1986. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, center inverted in graphite on white sticker: 74% / Pg 37; perpendicular along left edge in graphite: Neg #26 / #622 120389 8/3/86 / SK printed; lower center: GD-AG-306; lower right: GDC-691

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.