Udo Breger

Udo Breger

Same morning smoking, what looks like a regular cigarette. On Brion’s pinky his golden seal ring can be seen.

Artist/s: Udo Breger

Künstler:in / Künstlergruppe: Udo Breger

Titel: Same morning smoking, what looks like a regular cigarette. On Brion’s pinky his golden seal ring can be seen.

Kategorie: Fotografie

Format: Farbfotografie

Material / Technik: Farbfotografie

Maße / Dauer: 43,5 x 29 cm

Sammlung: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe

Bilder

Udo Breger, »Same morning smoking, what looks like a regular cigarette. On Brion’s pinky his golden seal ring can be seen. Blurred in the background is the black-and-white photograph depicting Burroughs’ blackboard drawings illustrating his lecture The Fo

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; Foto © ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Foto: Franz J. Wamhof

Bilder

Bei Fred Aldrich am Waffentisch

Brion mit Opernglas

Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs starren auf die Traummaschine

William & Ploog, Bunker

William & Victor at Bunker

The last encounter of friends & former lovers John Giorno and Brion in May 1986 in front of Brion’s home in Paris. In mid-July Brion would pass on

William Loading Gun

Ian Sommerville, mathematician, close friend, and collaborator of Burroughs and Gysin during their 1960s’ Paris, Tanger and London activities, sitting at WSB’s writing desk in apartment #18 at Dalmeney Court, in March 1973

Brion Gysin and William Burroughs smelling flowers, a little outside of Albert Hofmann’s premises where they visited in June 1979. Part of Albert’s house can be seen in the upper left corner

Part of the cover of Brion Gysin’s “Baby Book”, Légendes de Brion Gysin, published by François Lagarde in his gris banal editions, as photographed on a sunny Basel Sunday afternoon with a baby spider visiting

Vale in SF

Enjoying a visit by William Burroughs. The two best friends sitting on Brion’s Tanger chest, holding important documents of the two. The shock of hair in the foreground could be Terry Wilson’s who often came over from London whenever WSB was visiting

William with Lissy

Brion Gysin and poet John Giorno at an evening at Books & Company, on the occasion of the Xerox-book launch of Brion and WSB’s Scrapbook no. 3, during the Nova Convention, in New York in 1978

Wasson, William, Brion, Albert

Reading the New York Herald Tribune of 8 February 1985 when SS-doctor Josef Mengele’s death was confirmed; see his photograph on the paper’s front page

James & William, Opium Type

Brion posing for a series of photographs in his djellabah, standing in his window facing Centre Pompidou

William's Cane

Brion had been one of many guests of honor at one of David Bowie’s concerts during his Serious Moonlight Tour of 1983, each of whom was photographed with David who would have sent out photographs, signed and with a dedication, immediately after the e

The last photo taken upon Brion’s request, right after breakfast of 6 January 1986

Michael McClure / Joanna

Dalmeney Court, 8 Duke Street (St. James’s), Mayfair, London. That’s where Burroughs used to live between 1965 and 1974.

William, Hotel, Rom

William Burroughs and Brion Gysin after dinner, with empty plates cleared away, or maybe before dinner, with empty whiskeys and a slim spliff passed around

Brion at 6 Meisengasse, Basel, giving a private lecture of the history of Alamout and Hassan-i-Sabbah, founder of the Ismaelite Sect to Jürgen Ploog who’s about to leave to go back to Frankfurt

William Burroughs looking at a photograph at Brion Gysin’s Paris flat, shortly after their participation in the ten days One World Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, in October 1979

Bunker, Außenfassade

Self-portrait of young Brion Gysin with skulls, taken somewhere in Greece in the summer of 1935

Brion’s Moroccan tattoo on his left shoulder as exposed one sunny morning while visiting at 6 Meisengasse, Basel

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