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Lynne Wildey, Bob Kaufman, City Lights Book Shop, book signing, Ferlinghetti right rear.

Allen Ginsberg
Credit: Gift of Gary Davis
1984
Gelatin silver print
2017.165.2
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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