Allen Ginsberg: Photographs
twelvetrees press
may 1991
11 x 14 inches
92 sheet-fed gravure plates
132 pages
first edition: slipcased
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Introduction 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 of other writers, painters, friends, as well as several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.