Larry Keenan, Photographer - Beat Generation & Counterculture Photos
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Gregory Corso

GREGORY CORSO


True American Primitive Poet
1930-2001

Photographed at Stewart Brand's
Whole Earth Jamboree

Marin Headlands
1978

KEN KESEY


Novelist   Visionary   Fugitive   Educator
Merry Prankster
1925-2001

Photographed at California College of Arts & Crafts
speaking to students while a fugitive from the law

Oakland
1966
Philip Whalen

PHILIP WHALEN


Beat Poet   Zen Master
1923-2002

Photographed in his apartment

San Francisco
1965
Freewheelin Frank

FRANK REYNOLDS


Hell's Angel   Arsonist   Artist
1943-2003

Photographed at Michael McClure's house

Oakland
2000
Ted Joans

TED JOANS


Poet   Musician   Artist
1928-2003

Photographed at the deYoung Museum's
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965

San Francisco
1995
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