Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg Exhibit at SAMA

L-R: Allen Ginsberg Exhibit, cards with portraits with comedian Lenny Bruce, satirist Mort Sahl, Poet Gregory Corso, (Pulitzer Prize for poem "Being 50") Writer William S. Burroughs, Writer Jack Kerouac, Musicians Thelonius Monk & Charlie Parker, Howl written by Allen Ginsberg, Lecturer David Ruben on Ginsberg, SAMA

Although the late poet Allen Ginsberg is best known for his signature poem Howl, one of the literary classics from the Beat Generation of the 1950s, he also was a prolific photographer.

The San Antonio Museum of Art continues to present Allen Ginsberg: Beat Generation Photographer, a distinguished collection of the poet’s photographs til October 14th.

Allen Ginsberg: Beat Generation Photographer includes forty-seven of Ginsberg’s photographs from both his early and late periods as a photographer. (a sampling here)

Subjects in the photos include counterculture luminaries Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (the owner of San Francisco ’s famous City Lights Bookshop), Beat poet Gregory Corso, Robert Frank, Timothy Leary, (LSD Guru) and the painter Francesco Clemente, among others.