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Alene Lee, her friend Jack Kerouac, time of "The Subterraneans," friend Bob Merims in shadow, my apartment East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

Allen Ginsberg
Credit: Gift of Gary Davis
1953, printed 1990
Gelatin silver print
2013.145.46
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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