[Note: I took these photos in 2009, and present them here again in memory of Richie Havens, who passed away on April 22, 2013 at the age of 72. Rest in peace, Richie.]
Richie Havens played the Festival of the …{read more}
Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske
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“What’s your road, man?—holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
For the last several years, on his website www.RetracingJackKerouac.com, Joerg Haeske has documented his …{read more}
Maggs Counterculture – Experimental ’70s Pop photos of Russ Karel
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A recent blog post by Maggs Counterculture discusses the experimental ’70s Pop photos of Russ Karel, a much overlooked documentarist. An important collection of his work has just been catalogued and is almost ready for public consumption and sale. Prepare …{read more}
Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee
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Lawrence FerlinghettiMarch 11, 1987
Taken in his office above City Lights Bookstore (shaped like an arrowhead bisecting Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley), Ferlinghetti spends more time in his painting studio at this point in his life. A quiet, …{read more}
In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008
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THE ARTIST
for Bruce Conner
THE ARTIST has faces that are nude ladies and feathers.
Women pose in the visage of the whirlpool
raising bare arms and arching bare thighs.
Tentacles of squid sway down among pinions
of African eagles ...{read more}
About Photographer Larry Keenan
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In 1965, California College of Arts and Crafts student Larry Keenan was asked by his teacher, poet and playwright Michael McClure, if he would like to photograph a group of his friends. Asking McClure whom his friends were Keenan was …{read more}