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Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's Grave [Camera 5 Print]
Author: Regan, Ken - photographer
Title: Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's Grave [Camera 5 Print]
Publication: New York: Camera 5, [1975]
Description: Gelatin silver print, 9x13" on 11x14" glossy stock. Camera 5 Ken Regan stamp to verso. Good only with rippling, a few small edge tears and wrinkles, and staining to verso.
Likely an editorial agency print, a lesser known shot, from Regan's Rolling Thunder Revue coverage. This photograph captures Dylan playing guitar seated next to Ginsberg at Kerouac's grave in 1975 at Edson Cemetery, Lowell, MA. Regan was the tour's principal photographer and took a series of shots of this meeting while Howard Alk simultaneously filmed for Renaldo and Clara. Ginsberg recalls the meeting:
"Beautiful day with Dylan in Lowell Mass, beginning early afternoon visiting Kerouac’s grave plot and reading the stone, ”He honored the world [sic]” – We stood in the November sun brown leaves flying in wind, & read poems from Mexico City Blues, then we sat down, Dylan played my harmonium, Peter beside him, and we traded lines improvising a song to Kerouac underground beneath grass and stone. Then Dylan played Blues chords on his guitar while I improvised a ten stanza song about Jack looking down with empty eyes from clouds – Dylan stopped guitar to stuff a brown leaf in his breast pocket while I continued solo voice and he picked up his guitar to pluck it on the beat perfect to the end of my stanza – little celestial inspired ditty on Kerouac’s grave – all recorded for movie (sic)….”
Estate prints from this Regan shoot are available, but contemporary prints are scarce, and we find little mention of this particular image elsewhere.
.Estate prints from this Regan shoot are available, but contemporary prints are scarce, and we find little mention of this particular image elsewhere.
Seller ID: 10021
Subject: Art & Photography, Music and Performing Arts
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