Udo Breger

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

Artist / Artist group: Udo Breger
Title: 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
Category: photography, Black-and-white photography
Material / Technique: Black-and-white photography
Dimensions / Duration: 29 x 44 cm
Collection: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Udo Breger

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Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs, Dreamachine-gazing

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William's Cane

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William, Hotel, Rom

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Bunker, Außenfassade

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William Loading Gun

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William & Ploog, Bunker

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William with Lissy

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James & William, Opium Type

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Michael McClure / Joanna

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William & Victor at Bunker

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Brion mit Opernglas

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Bei Fred Aldrich am Waffentisch

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Vale in SF

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Wasson, William, Brion, Albert

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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Udo Breger

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

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