Charles Bukowski (Tour in Skid Row), 1970 – Photograph by Sam Cherry

Sam Cherry Charles Bukowski (Tour in Skid Row), 1970 (printed 2009)Silver gelatin print on archival fiber based paper 16 x 20 inches Edition of 12 This image was reproduced in the back of many the books Black Sparrow published. "I had to coax Hank to get out of the car for this photograph.  Sam had been telling stories of his days on skid row in the Great Depression of the 30s. "Hell, sometimes I write like I'm on the row, but I'm not.  I feel like a phony," Hank said. As it turned out, he grew to love the image." – Sam Cherry Sam Cherry’s Photographs of Charles Bukowski, The Black Cat, and Skid Row take the viewer on an historical journey through intimate moments with Charles Bukowski, the 1940s Bohemian scene at The Black Cat Café (San Francisco’s hub for the creative), and Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s. Cherry was born in 1913 in Philadephia, the son of Russian emigrants who barely escaped persecution in the Ukraine. His father a tailor, dabbled in bootlegging whiskey in their