Dead Beats Series

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

Beat Poet   Zen Master
1923-2002

Photographed in his apartment

San Francisco
1965

FRANK REYNOLDS

Hell's Angel   Arsonist   Artist
1943-2003

Photographed at Michael McClure's house

Oakland
2000

TED JOANS

Poet   Musician   Artist
1928-2003

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

San Francisco
1995