Allen Ginsberg: Photographs OOP

Allen Ginsberg: Photographs OOPIntroduction by Robert Frank An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, and dozens

the book was remaindered and went out of print four years later

always constrained by the religious and political definitions of society

100 gravure plates

His paintings are also included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art

The pleasure of the artist at work is felt in these photographs

His camera captured these children of the James Dean generation in private and public moments

The book never transpired

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including several revealing self-portraits

The photographs reflect the mood and vision of his first monograph and include work from America

it is not simply a matter of looking

they photographed themselves and their friends against a background of vast