(c) The Estate of Allen Ginsberg
Opening next Thursday (August 10th) at The Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles (and up through September 23) – a major show –Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg.
The curators write:
“This exhibition of Ginsberg’s personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs included in this exhibition are joyful, often tender, sometimes profound while at other times humorous – and capture Ginsberg’s numerous meaningful relationships.”
In conjunction with the exhibition the Fahey/Klein Gallery will be hosting a preview of “A Picture of My Mind: Poems Written by Allen Ginsberg’s Photographs”, a collaboration between the gallery, theVERSEverse collective and Ross Goodwin, pioneering “code poet”, pioneer at turning digital image data into text.
So there will be a dialogue between Allen’s photos and his poetry. theVERSEverse will present “a collection of ekphrastic poems generated by an AI-powered version of Allen’s own text corpus in response to specific photographs”.
For more on theVERSEverse literary gallery and collective “where poem = work of art” – see here – and here
For more on David Fahey (a recent interview by Nadine Dinter) – see here
and more on Ross Goodwin – here