Photographs
Allen Ginsberg Twelvetrees Press

Photographs

Pages

132

Format

Hardcover

Release date

May 1991

Publisher

Twelvetrees Press

Weight

3.2 lbs

Size

11.5 x 0.8 x 14.2 "
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, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.