Corso (& Whitman)

March 26, 2017Simon Pettet

[Gregory Corso, 1993]

More Beat photo portfolios. Today, March 26, would have been the 87th birthday of the rambunctious Gregory Corso.

[Gregory Corso, New York City, 1953 – Photography by Allen Ginsberg]

[Gregory Corso at the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1958 – Photograph by Harold Chapman]

[Gregory Corso, making a call in the White Horse Tavern, New York City, February 1959 –  Fred W. McDarrah – Photo Courtesy Estate of Fred W, McDarrah]

[Gregory Corso in front of the Parthenon, Athens, 1959. Photograph by James Burke]

[Gregory Corso, Tangier, July 1961. Photograph by Allen Ginsberg]

[Gregory Corso at the Royal Albert … Read More

Cut-Ups 2 – Brion Gysin

March 9, 2014admin

[Brion Gysin with Dreamachine at Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, 1962  – Photograph by Harold Chapman – © Harold Chapman] 

Weekend of  The Cut-Ups – Two Brion Gysin movies on the Allen Ginsberg Project this weekend. The first, Nik Sheehan’s 2008 Canadian documentary, FLicKeR, (a documentary examining and exploring Gysin’s mind-expanding, trance-inducing invention, the dreamachine); the second, from ten years earlier, Joe Ambrose, Frank Rynne and Terry Wilson’s record of the 1992 Gysin celebrations in Dublin, Ireland, Destroy All Rational Thought (the latter of particular interest, since it features one of the very last filmed interviews with William Burroughs,… Read More

Celebrating Peter Orlovsky

May 30, 2013Peter Hale

[Nude With Onions (Portrait of Peter Orlovsky) by Robert LaVigne (1954)]

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

[ Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Lee Forrest’s room, Hotel de Londres, Paris, December 1957 – Photograph by Harold Chapman]

[Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, (and Michael McClure) – Photograph by Larry Keenan]

[Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky, Boulder Colorado 1978. Photo … Read More

First Look….

June 10, 2009admin

Sneak preveiws are starting to trickle in. First Look have posted a recreation of Harold Chapman’s classic photo of Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg at Place St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, December 1957, with Aaron Tveit as Peter and Jame Franco as Allen. Pretty convincing we think!

[photo: still from from “Howl” ]

[image: Peter Orlovsky & Allen Ginsberg, Place St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, December 1957. c. Harold Chapman/OMC Gallery from Beats a Paris]

And Variety….

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