Beat Generation

David Wojnarowicz, Self Portrait. 1983-85 . Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow...

Nat Farbman - Poet Michael McClure, California, 1957 . I ' d draw all this into a fine element ,...

"We were improvising . . . every scene was very simple. They were predicated on people having problems that were...

Neal Cassady, under a San Francisco movie marquee advertising The Wild One, 1955 He’s with his girlfriend at the time,...

Allen Ginsberg resting in bed, 1955 to Gary Snyder The red tin begging cup you gave me, I lost it...

Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953 . 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy 2....

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Vrej Baghoomian, 1988 “The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your...

Robert Frank, Les Américains. Cover design by Saul Steinberg, 1958 Robert Frank, Coffee Shop, Railway Station, 1955-56 Robert Frank, Reno,...

Peter Orlovsky at Yosemite (photo by Ginsberg), 1956 Church of St Francis, Morocco, 1956 Michael Portman Tangiers, top; possibly Ahmed...

Harry Redl, Kenneth Patchen with a collection of his painted books on the rooftop of his apartment house in San...