Item #41004 A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”. William S. BURROUGHS, Brion GYSIN.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.
A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.

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A collection of 13 b/w photographs of William Burroughs on the Left Bank in Paris, taken by Brion Gysin as publicity for “The Naked Lunch on four separate occasions c. September/October 1959”.

Each print measures 16.5x21.5cm. Printed from the original negatives c. 1982, with four prints SIGNED on the verso in blue ink by Barry Miles, who was given the negatives by Brion Gysin.

The images are: i) three photographs of Burroughs at the Institut Française. In the first he is standing with his back to the ornate wooden door at the back of the building; the other two were taken at 23 Quai de Conti (opposite the end of Pont des Arts) by the columns of la Coupole, the central building of the Institute;

ii) a sequence of three photographs (of four) from the ‘Danger Series’, portraying Burroughs at the Place de l’Odéon in the process of lighting a cigarette, his back to a construction site wall stencilled with the word ‘Danger’; according to Gysin the photographs were taken on the day “The Naked Lunch” was published in early September 1959;

iii) a photograph of Burroughs seated on the terrace of La Palette on rue de Seine, the café where Burroughs frequently took his morning coffee and routinely scored his drugs;

iv) three photographs of Burroughs with Maurice Girodias on the corner of rue Gît-le-Cœur and Quai des Grands Augustins (one of them has Girodias largely out of shot), and a fourth one of Burroughs standing at the same corner (partially obscured by a passing Parisian);

v) a photograph of Burroughs standing on the Pont des Arts (it was the image of his face from this photograph that was used by Peter Blake for the front cover of “Sgt. Pepper”);

vi) a photograph of Burroughs standing outside the entrance to the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, with Madame Rachou’s name visible on the door behind him.

A Near Fine collection of prints from this classic series of photographs.

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