Ira Cohen - (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Cohen
“I’d like to say something more perfect about Vali, that would actually shed light on her beauty and how
important she is to me. She’s really a great artist, and she’s always followed her own star, which is to me
the most important thing. Especially when you’re talking about authenticity, a word which doesn’t have a
lot of play in the art world. For me Vali is both a great artist and a great person, absolutely unique. Anyone
who has ever seen her or knows her can tell that. But she herself is her greatest work of art. I never really
saw her when she was drawing, although I have a tiny doodle she made on an envelope and gave me
which I put in a little frame.”
— Ira Cohen
Ira Cohen - (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. |
Allen Ginsberg, Life Mask
“Part of Ira Cohen’s Bandaged Poets series, which first began when Ira met his second wife Caroline
Gosselin in Amsterdam in the late 1970s. Gosselin had been making ‘life masks’ and Ira began
photographing the process of bandaging all the noted poets that crossed their path. Cohen had originally
published Ginsberg in Gnaoua in 1964. Cohen would later wryly comment that Allen Ginsberg made sure
New York City wasn’t big enough for two bearded Jewish poets”
Ira Cohen - Bom Shankar, an ascetic of the Aghori sect |
IRA COHEN part 2
William S Burroughs in Cohen’s New York loft, also part of his Mylar Chamber series. Cohen met Burroughs in Tangier, Morocco in the early 1960s, where he published Burroughs in his Gnaoua magazine. |
From The Mylar Chamber series, late 60s |
Jimi Hendrix by photographer Ira Cohen |
Vali and Ching Ho Cheng , New York City, 1970. Photo by Ira Cohen |
Jimi Hendrix by photographer Ira Cohen |
Beautiful and inspired!
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