Item #40980 A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972). William S. BURROUGHS.
A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).
A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).
A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).
A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).
A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).

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A group of six colour photographs by William Burroughs, each one depicting a different arrangement of objects and printed material, as laid out by him on a brown tray on the carpeted floor of his Dalmeny Court flat, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London (1972).

Square format (10.1x9.8cm.). Vintage prints.

The various arrangements, or permutations, with elements added or subtracted, feature Burroughs’ Webley ‘Senior’ Compression air pistol, a Webley pellet tin, and a toy gun; colour photographs of Burroughs with John Brady; a colour photograph of John Brady; a flyer for “The Godfather” (one of Burroughs’ favourite films, according to Brady); the second edition of “The Exterminator”; the August 1964 issue of Analog Science Fact & Science Fiction; a postcard depicting the main street in Gibralter (a location referred to in “The Third Mind” in “Precise Intersection Points”); and a scrapbook page, with other pages from a folder visible.

The group of images was one of countless photomontage arrangements and rearrangements Burroughs conducted in his Duke Street apartment, a series of experimental juxtapositions that, as with all his endeavours, he pursued exhaustively.

Two of the photographs are reproduced in Taking Shots: The Photography of William Burroughs (pp. 140-141).

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