John Cage, kneeling next to basket, picking mushrooms (1989)

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Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ John Cage, kneeling next to basket, picking mushrooms (1989)

Still image

Origin
John Fago
Identifier
IM.CA.CC.1989a.001.001
Dates
1989 | created
Work Type
Digital scan
Image Class
Composer & Performer Portraits
Image Series
Composer-to-Composer Festival:1989
Description
John Cage picking mushrooms in Telluride, Colorado. Although well known as an avant-garde composer and artist, John Cage was also an expert mycologist who often collected and ate wild mushrooms from around the world. His stories about mushroom hunting often made their way into his performances and lectures, particularly in “Indeterminacy,” and he is even reported to have won money on an Italian quiz show in 1959 based on his voluminous knowledge about fungi.
Genres & Subjects
Portrait photographs--1980-1990
Men
Composers
Mushrooms
Mushrooms, Edible
Image Ownership
John Fago
Photo Credits
John Fago
Related Event
Composer-to-Composer Festival, 1989
Related place
Telluride (Colo.) (was created at)
Related Entities
Fago, John
Cage, John