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Allen Ginsberg.
Photographic Archive.
The massive Ginsberg Photographic Archive consists of approximately eighty-eight thousand images, dating from the 1930s until 1997. Seventy-eight thousand of these are from Ginsberg's hand, either shot or set up by him, and are represented in the archive by all of the original negatives, a full set of contact prints, and numerous enlargements. The remaining ten thousand images, taken by others, document the contemporary scene from the 1950s until the 1990s. The Photographic Archive is made up almost exclusively of portraits, both formal and informal, single-subject and group images. It not only provides an exhaustive visual portrait of Ginsberg's family, personal, and artistic life, but also o∂ers extensive documentation of the wider international scene--social, political, and cultural. The collection is especially valuable for its coverage of other writers, visual artists, musicians and cultural figures. |
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