Allen Ginsberg: Memoria fotográfica Beat

"Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what’s vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future."

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, el poeta Beat y budista provocador de las clases bien pensantes, disfrutó, a lo largo de su vida, de la fama de una estrella de rock y de una impresionante presencia en los medios de comunicación. En primer lugar fue un inmenso poeta, algo que ha quedado sólidamente demostrado. Pero el poeta tenía una segunda vida como fotógrafo, y "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg", en The National Gallery of Art (Washington) nos acerca a esta otra forma de poesía.

 

"Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jack’s The Subterraneans records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d sent from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee (“Mardou Fox” of The Subterraneans) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish & Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like “Leshkos” corner 7th & A, rent was only ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of “The Green Automobile” poem to Cassady, Fall 1953. 

 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

Jack Kerouac, 1953

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

"Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter-Carrier’s Friend' in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he’s making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan."

 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

Bill Burroughs amused by the latest polsie of St. Perse, 1953 New York

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Junkie propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.

  

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)  

 

"Now Jack as I warned you far back as 1945, if you keep going home to live with your ‘Memère’ you’ll find yourself wound tighter and tighter in her apron strings till you’re an old man and can’t escape . . ." William Seward Burroughs camping as an André Gide-ian sophisticate lecturing the earnest Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac who listens soberly dead-pan to “the most intelligent man in America” for a funny second’s charade in my living room 206 East 7th Street Apt 16, Manhattan, one evening Fall 1953. 

 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

 "Jack Kerouac Avenue A across from Thompkins [sic] Park 1953 New York, his handsome face looking into barroom door—This is best profile of his intelligence as I saw it Sacred, time of Subterraneans writing." 1953.

 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

Donlin, Cassady, Ginsberg, La Vigne y Ferlinghetti en 1956. 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997) 

 

Gregory Corso en París c.1961

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

William S. Burroughs & Alan Ansen en Marruecos, 1961

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

(de pie) William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Ian Sommerville (sentados) Peter Orlovszky, Paul Bowles Tanger, 1961 

Fotógrafo: Michael Portman

Allen Ginsberg pescando con arpón en el Mar del Japón, Julio 1963
University of Toronto

Gary Synder, Japan 1963.
Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

"Peter Orlovsky, returned to New York from India, Avenue C and 5th Street, September 1963."

 

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, N.Y.C….,1964

Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey 1926 – 1997)

 

Allen Ginsberg, autorretrato, 6 de Junio de 1996

 

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