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James & William, Opium Type

Udo Breger

James & William, Opium Type

Artist / Artist group: Udo Breger

Title: James & William, Opium Type

Category: Photography

Format: Color Photography

Material / Technique: color photography

Dimensions / Duration: 40 x 50 cm

Collection: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Artist/s

Udo Breger

Andere Werke des/der Künstler:in

Udo Breger

Bei Fred Aldrich am Waffentisch

Brion mit Opernglas

Udo Breger

Brion mit Opernglas

Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs, Dreamachine-gazing

Udo Breger

Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs, Dreamachine-gazing

Udo Breger

William & Victor at Bunker

Udo Breger

William & Ploog, Bunker

Dalmeney Court, 8 Duke Street (St. James’s), Mayfair, London. That’s where Burroughs used to live between 1965 and 1974. Having eventually left Tangier for good, Brion spent a little more than one year in this house where Eric Burdon of The Animals had a flat as well. It was here that we first met in January 1972

Udo Breger

Dalmeney Court, 8 Duke Street (St. James’s), Mayfair, London. That’s where Burroughs used to live between 1965 and 1974. Having eventually left Tangier for good, Brion spent a little more than one year in this house where Eric Burdon of The Animals ha

William, Hotel, Rom

Udo Breger

William, Hotel, Rom

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

Udo Breger

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

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

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

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

Bunker, Außenfassade

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

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

Udo Breger

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

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

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

William Loading Gun

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 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, given at one of the Whole Earth Conferences a little outside of Aix-en- Provence, which also Brion did attend

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 Four Horsem

Vale in SF

Udo Breger

Vale in SF

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

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

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

Wasson, William, Brion, Albert

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

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

Udo Breger

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

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

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 event

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 even

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

Michael McClure / Joanna

Udo Breger

Michael McClure / Joanna

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

Udo Breger

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

William's Cane

Udo Breger

William's Cane

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

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

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

Udo Breger

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

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