Web resource curator: Rani Singh, Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute; Director, Harry Smith Archives
Web resource project management: Linda Tadic
Research assistance: Mark Vevle
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Home page images
Top row, left to right:
1. Harry Smith, 1965. Photograph by John Palmer. © 2001 Harry Smith Archives
2. Harry Smith at Jane and
Bataan Faigo's house, summer 1988. Photograph by Allen
Ginsberg. © 2001 The Allen Ginsberg Trust
3. Harry Smith recording
birds in Manhattan, 1987. Photograph by Brian Graham.
© 2001 Brian Graham
4. Harry Smith, 1987. Photograph by Brian Graham. © 2001 Brian Graham
Bottom row, left to right:
1. "Harry Smith exhausted
3 AM over Chinese take-out supper. A car had backed into
him up on 12th Street corner Avenue A weeks earlier, compression-fractured his
knee, so he stayed with me nine months in small room behind him he'd fixed with
door-latch and lock. Old postcard of Manhattan Island on toilet door panel to
his right. Ethnomusicologic archivist, film-maker, alchemist, he'd designed
my new Collected Poems book cover, he'd been moved out of hotel room
on 28th Street, lived in Bowery shelters, was now homeless in New York! June
17, 1985." Caption and photograph by Allen Ginsberg. © 2001 The Allen Ginsberg
Trust
2. HS [Harry Smith signature]. © 2001 Harry Smith Archives
3. Buddha's Footprint. Allen Ginsberg noticed this design, known as Buddha's footprint, on a wall in India in the 1960s. He commissioned Harry Smith to draft this design for use on his Collected Poems and subsequent book covers. © 2001 The Allen Ginsberg Trust
4. Harry Smith listening
to music in Allen Ginsberg's living room, 1987. Photograph by
Brian Graham. © 2001 Brian Graham
Roll-over painting details:
Details taken from Harry Smith, Study for Film no. 9, Prelude B, gouache on paper, ca. 1951. © 2001 Harry Smith Archives
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Rani
Singh
Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute
Director, Harry Smith Archives