The 20 black & white photographic postcards in this book constitute a unique chronology and timeless rendering of the spirit of the Beats. Readers' Reviews:
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Robbie Robertson, Michael McClure, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg in the alley behind City Lights Books. This photograph is in the booklet that comes with the bootleg series vol. 4 Dylan CD set, Bob Dylan Live 1966, The Royal Albert Hall Concert.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a Beat poet, artist and owner/publisher of City Lights Books (the first soft cover book store in the US),and former Poet Laureate of San Francisco. This photograph was taken in the basement of City Lights. Ferlinghetti told me that City Lights used to be a Holy Roller church and that he had left up the Biblical tracts on the walls. While posing for me in front of "I am the Door" Ferlinghetti pulled his coat up to reveal the 'door'.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti wanted to document the 1965 Beat scene in San Francisco in the spirit of the early 20th century classic photographs of the Bohemian artists & writers in Paris. The Beats, front row L to R: Robert LaVigne, Shig Murao, Larry Fagin, Leland Meyezove (lying down), Lew Welch, Peter Orlovsky. Second row: David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Langton, Steve (friend of Ginsberg), Richard Brautigan, Gary Goodrow, Nemi Frost. Back row: Stella Levy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Because this is a vertical image about half of the Beats attending are not shown.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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Once when I was visiting Allen in his apartment he asked me if I would like some coffee. Having said "yes" he presented me with a metal bowl with coffee in it. The bowl seemed strange and I nursed the coffee to cool it down. Soon he started asking, "Are you finished with that, man?" I would say "no, not yet" and after awhile I started to feel uncomfortable because the bowl seemed important to him. When I finally said "yes" he grabbed the bowl away - threw the remaining coffee in the sink and sat down with the bowl for his breakfast cereal. I was using his only bowl.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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While waiting for McClure to leave his place, Bruce Conner and I played around with my parent's car. He posed all over the old Rolls Royce, but I like his flying lady hood ornament pose the best.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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After meeting Ginsberg for the first time, I was not in Allen's Fell Street apartment long before he rolled up the rug, sat down, and chanted mantras for around an hour. During that time Peter Orlovsky, Michael McClure, Bruce Conner and I joined in. With this photograph, I wanted the viewer to have the feeling of what it was like to sit down and join in the chanting with the Beats.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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From the series of images in the City Lights Books alley originally for the Blonde on Blonde album (photographs not used in that project). Imagine going back to school the next day after this session, what do you say to your friends?
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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This photograph was always in a dome or tombstone shape. When Allen died I was inspired to release him from that format. This photograph was used on the cover of the program at the Ginsberg Memorial in San Francisco.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
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Dennis Hopper and Bruce Conner are having a discussion at the Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco. The event was the opening of Hopper's and Conner's joint show at the gallery.
Signed and captioned unframed prints are $45. each. These ink jet prints are made on 8 1/2" x 11" Arches 90# watercolor paper. The final image size is approximately 5" x 7". Limited edition silver prints are also available.
