BRION GYSIN

Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel on Rue Git-Le-Couer photographed by Ian Sommerville, 1959.

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Brion Gysin, Naked Lunch Launch series, Paris, October 1959 by Ian Sommerville

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Jean Fanchette, Sinclair Beiles, Brion Gysin, and William Burroughs. Paris, 1959.

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‘Danger Series’ - Portrait of William Burroughs in front of the Théâtre Odeon
by Brion Gysin (Naked Lunch series, Paris Oct 1959) BGOG05 (C)

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“William Burroughs, Paris, 1959. Burroughs is wearing what he called his “Rothschild suit”. One of a number of images taken of Burroughs by Brion Gysin in the streets of Paris. Gysin told writer Terry Wilson that the series was an ironic magical operation intended to procure Burroughs’ entry into the French Academy. Note the ripped, torn and detourned posters calling for a lasting peace agreement in Algiers, and the peeling upper walls in which the image of Africa serendipitously appears.”

Text from Naked Lunch @ 50 - http://nakedlunch.org/ (by Oliver Harris, probably)

‘Danger Series’ - Portrait of William Burroughs in front of the Théâtre Odeon
by Brion Gysin (Naked Lunch series, Paris Oct 1959) BGOG05 (A)

William Burroughs and Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel in Paris photographed by Loomis Dean, October 1959 for LIFE magazine

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