Photos of Allen and friends …
Harry Smith‘s birthday today, born in Portland, Oregon, May 29, 1923.
Allen certainly admired, and took a great many pictures of Harry (more indeed than almost any other subject). Here is just a sampling of a few of them, various locations, but mostly in Allen’s kitchen, East 12th Street NYC, 1984-1989.
See also other Harry Smith Birthday postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, and here. Also, for example, here and here.
Allen Ginsberg died 20 years ago today.… Read More
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, during World War II. Normandy Invasion, 1945]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, on the announcement of the Howl Trial Verdict, October 3, 1957]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti -Photograph by Harry Redl, 1958]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in City Lights Bookstore 1959, (aged 40)]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1960]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti in London, 1965]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, book-jacket – An Eye on The World, 1967]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Photograph by Ilka Hartman. c.1971]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Photograph by Ilka Hartman. c.1971]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, c.1982 – Photograph by Chris Felver]
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, c.1982 – Photograph by Chris Felver]
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The great Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 98 years old today! Bounteous Birthday Greetings from the Allen Ginsberg Project
It’s Jack Kerouac‘s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Jack!
[Top to bottom: Stephen Miles 1994; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Gordon Ball 1971; William S Burroughs 1953, NYC; Photobooth 1946, Sheepshead Bay; Photobooth, Mexico 1954; Chester Kessler 1959, San Francisco; UPI June 1966, New York City. ]… Read More
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY, ALLEN! – A 90th BIRTHDAY PHOTO PORTFOLIO
Harry Smith‘s birthday today. Learn more about the unclassifiable maestro and treat yourself to a viewing of his remarkable Early Abstractions – here (and/or Heaven and Earth Magic – here)
“You shouldn’t be looking at this as a continuity. Film frames are hieroglyphs, even when they look like actuality. You should think of the individual frame, always, as a glyph, and then you’ll understand what cinema’s about”
An example of an early Harry Smith painting (Algo Bueno, c.1951)
and two more recent paintings (Untitled, c.1977)
and (Enochian Tablet, circa 1979)
and here is Untitled, from the previous year… Read More
Peter Orlovsky, Allen’s long-time partner died on this day in 2010. He was 77 years old. First glimpsed by Allen in the portrait above by Robert LaVigne
Our previous Peter Orlovsky postings include here and here.
Here’s a little photo portfolio. We fondly remember you, Peter
Elsa Dorfman, doyenne of the over-sized Polaroid, one of the most familiar, and most sensitive, photographers of Allen, turns 75 today. Happy Birthday “Ellie”!
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