Detail of the 'Dead Star' manuscript by William S. Burroughs in My Own Mag, issue 13

Detail of the 'Dead Star' manuscript by William S. Burroughs in My Own Mag, issue 13

Cover of My Own Mag, Issue 13, August 1965 containing the 'Dead Star' manuscript by William S. Burroughs

Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs with an essay by David Brittain

Creative Camera November 1982, a special issue on image and text, ran an essay by Victor Burgin on Barthes complemented with photographs by Burroughs

Photograph by William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs scrapbook in the collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Art