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Robert Frank & Allen Ginsberg
This week we're pleased to offer an amazing image of the Beat era, Robert Frank's 1959 portrait of his friend Allen Ginsberg. Four photos by Allen Ginsberg, also on offer, look back at Ginsberg's Beat lineage, forward to its mid-sixties proto-hippie incarnation, and beyond to the gazes exchanged by two éminences grise. Thanks for watching! |
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Robert Frank: Portrait of Allen Ginsberg,1959 (Early 70s Print!)An image that crystallizes a lifelong friendship, taken at one of the most mythologized moments in American cultural life. . . . |
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Allen Ginsberg: 'City Lights Bookshop', 1956 ![]() Snapped by Peter Orlovsky, this iconic shot of a core group of the Beat writers not quite at the height of their powers was taken . . . |
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Allen Ginsberg: Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson, Market Street, San Francisco, 1955 ![]() In a later caption for this image Ginsberg wrote, "Cassady had been prototype for Kerousac's late 40's On the Road saga hero . . . |
$995
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Allen Ginsberg: Portrait of Robert Frank, 1984During a portrait shoot for for the cover of his soon-to-be released "Collected Poems, Ginsberg turns the camera on his friend. Taken in Frank's 17 Bleeker St. studio. . . . |
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Allen Ginsberg: 'Timothy Leary, Neal Cassady--with 'Merry Pranksters' on the 'Further' Bus', 1964 ![]() One of Ginsberg's most iconic 60s pictures--Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady on the infamous 'Further' Bus. "" YOU'RE EITHER ON . . . |
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Man Ray: Photographs 1920-1934 "Man Ray imbued everyday scenes with drama and mystery, making the familiar feel strange and unsettling. Buildings and landscapes are photographed from odd angles with dramatic shadows. The edge of a . . . |
$1245
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Charles Holme (ed.): Art in Photography: (Special Summer Number of With chapters divided by country, this important collection of early 20th century photographic art includes most of the major names from the period. Among the represented included are J. Craig Annan, . . . |
$300
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Leni Riefenstahl: Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf (SIGNED!)Writing in The Book of 101 Books, David Levi Strauss says of this book, "These are such exquisite, transcendentally beautiful images of athletes, that one almost forgets their context." Schönhe . . . |
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Chicago Chicago (1992 Wall Calender)Ishimoto was included in Otto Steinerts second 'Subjecktive Fotografie exhibition. Yasuhiro Ishimoto published two books on Chicago Someday, Somewhere (1960) and Chicago, Chicago (1969); the latter is . . . |
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Herbert Baldwin: A War Photographer in Thrace (1912 edition!)An account by Herbert Baldwin, press photographer of Central News Ltd., of London, of his personal experiences during the war of 1912 between Turkey and the Allied Balkan States. In addition to provid . . . |
$695
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John Werge: The Evolution of Photography (1890)An historical and anecdotal discussion of 19th century photographic history. "Interesting [and] opinionated early history with dates for many photomechanical patents in England. 4 Collotype plates"--H . . . |
$245
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Otto Steinert: (ed.): Subjektive Fotografie + Subjektive Fotografie 2 (2 Books)OTTO STEINERT (editor) Subjektive Fotografie. Ein Bildband moderner europischer Fotografie -- Subjective Photography. A Collection of Modern European Photography. Photographs by numerous artists. . . . |
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André Kertész/György Bölöni: Az Igazi Ady (The Real Ady)--Rare 1934 First Edition! A rare volume that places the work of Kertész in an important contemporary context! Among several of Kertész's earliest appearances in print (Enfants, 1933; [bid or read more] |
$595
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Jozsef Pecsi: A fenykepezo muveszete. Mumellekletekkel (The Art of Photography)--1928 2nd Ed.!The 1928 revised edition with all new photos of A fenykepezo muveszete (The Art of Photography), Jozsef Pecsi's key 1916 book on the theory and practice of photography. Jozsef Pecsi (1889- . . . |
$375
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Jozsef Pecsi: A fenykepezo muveszete. Mumellekletekkel (The Art of Photography)--1916 1st Ed.!A fenykepezo muveszete (The Art of Photography) is the first book by Jozsef Pecsi, offered here in an incredibly rare first edition (it was revised and updated with all new photographs for the 192 . . . |
$995
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Edward Curtis (illus.): Flute of the GodsThis mystico-historical romance recounts the coming of the white man to the pueblos of the southwestern desert (just up the road from photo-eye headquarters in Santa Fe, NM!). It is very much part of . . . |
$130
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Candle Lighting Time (Photographs by Hampton Institute Camera Club)Nice copy of a not uncommon book. An important piece of turn-of-the-century popular culture. Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems highlight the dialect of turn-of-the-century African-Americans, introducing th . . . |
$145
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Karl Blossfeldt: Konstformer I Naturen (Art Forms in Nature--Incredibly Rare Swedish Edition!)A rare find!! This is the extremely rare Swedish edition of Blossfeldt's much-loved Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature). Unlike the better known German, English, and French editions that are boun . . . |
$995
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Bill Brandt: A Night in London (+ 1 other)I photographed pubs, common lodging houses at night, theatres, Turkish baths, prisons and people in their bedrooms. London has changed so much that some of these pictures now have a period charm al . . . |
$1695
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Alvin Langdon Coburn: Men of Mark"To make satisfactory photographs of persons it is necessary for me to like them, to admire them, or at least to be interested in them. It is rather curious and difficult to exactly explain, but if I . . . |
$5495
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