Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal [Promotional Card, signed by Ginsberg]
Glossy photo card (6 x 9 inches) printed in three colors (red, yellow, black) to recto only. Signed in black ink to front. Promotional card for Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal, the debut monograph from Cambridge portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman (United States, 1937-2020), bearing a signature in black ink from Allen Ginsberg next to his photo in the center of the card. Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal, a major contribution to poets portraiture of the mid-20th century, reproduced Dorfman's intimate portraits of the traveling beatnik circus that came through her Cambridge home: Robert Creeley, Bob Dylan, Ginsberg, and more. Some light soiling, edge wear, and gentle creasing; still very much presentable; about Very Good. Item #3432
Price: $125.00