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William's Cane
Udo Breger
William's Cane
Artist / Artist group
Udo Breger
Title
William's Cane
Category
photography, Black-and-white photography
Material / Technique
Black and white photography
Collection
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Images
Open Gallery
Udo Breger, »William's Cane«, from the series »ROAD STOPS«, , Black and white photography, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
Images
Overview
Udo Breger, »William's Cane«, from the series »ROAD STOPS«, , Black and white photography, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
About the artist/s
Udo Breger
About the artist/s
Udo Breger
Other artwork by Udo Breger
Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs, Dreamachine-gazing
Udo Breger
William, Hotel, Rom
Udo Breger
Bunker, Außenfassade
Udo Breger
William Loading Gun
Udo Breger
William & Ploog, Bunker
Udo Breger
William with Lissy
Udo Breger
James & William, Opium Type
Udo Breger
Michael McClure / Joanna
Udo Breger
William & Victor at Bunker
Udo Breger
Brion mit Opernglas
Udo Breger
Bei Fred Aldrich am Waffentisch
Udo Breger
Vale in SF
Udo Breger
Wasson, William, Brion, Albert
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
Self-portrait of young Brion Gysin with skulls, taken somewhere in Greece in the summer of 1935
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
Same morning smoking, what looks like a regular cigarette. On Brion’s pinky his golden seal ring can be seen.
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
Brion posing for a series of photographs in his djellabah, standing in his window facing Centre Pompidou
Udo Breger
Dalmeney Court, 8 Duke Street (St. James’s), Mayfair, London. That’s where Burroughs used to live between 1965 and 1974.
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
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
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
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
The last photo taken upon Brion’s request, right after breakfast of 6 January 1986
Udo Breger
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
Udo Breger
Brion’s Moroccan tattoo on his left shoulder as exposed one sunny morning while visiting at 6 Meisengasse, Basel
Udo Breger
