Arguably the major poet of the the NorthAmerican Twentieth Century, Allen Ginsberg is also a photographer whose work beautifully represents the "poet's eye," the poet's way of seeing.  The photograph "Tompkins Square Bag Man" was part of an exhibit of Allen's photography at New York's Tibor di Nagy Gallery.

The handwritten poet's note below the photograph reads:

"October leaves on Tompkins Park sidewalk, Avenue A & St. Marks Place, the first shopping-bag street haunting homeless man I noticed, living then with Burroughs a few blocks away on East 7th Street.  Leshko's restaurant was already there on 7th Street corner, I got my snapshots developed & printed in drugstore near restaurant on opposite corner. Allen Ginsberg  Fall 1953."