The collection also includes all applications of the
medium, from
artistic pursuit to commercial enterprise and from amateur pastime to documentary
record,
as well
as all types of photographic processes, from daguerreotypes to digital prints...
Burroughs used photography extensively throughout his career, both
as a
recording medium in planning his writings, and
as a significant dimension of his own
artistic practice, in which photographs and other images feature
as significant elements in cut - ups.