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[Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso Seated on Floor in Conversation, During Filming of "Pull My Daisy", New York City]

John Cohen American
1959
Not on view
In the late 1950s and early 1960s Cohen photographed many of the leading artists and writers that would come to define the so-called New York School of painting, poetry, and performance-from late night conversations at the Cedar Bar to Lower East Side "Happenings." The pictures he made are less an objective documentation than a spirited collaboration with subjects who believed in erasing all boundaries between art and life. Cohen made this photograph while shooting production stills for Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Beat-era classic Pull My Daisy, which was based on a scenario by Jack Kerouac (also the narrator) and starred, among others, the poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. The two are seen here conversing between takes-an improvised, impassioned dialogue between friends that was like much of what wound up in the finished film.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso Seated on Floor in Conversation, During Filming of "Pull My Daisy", New York City]
  • Artist: John Cohen (American, 1932–2019)
  • Date: 1959
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 34.4 x 23.3 cm (13 9/16 x 9 3/16 in. )
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1997
  • Object Number: 1997.503.2
  • Rights and Reproduction: © John Cohen
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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