There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature. Includes photos of: Kathy Acker, David Amram, Karel Appel, Al Aronowitz, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, Joan Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Ernesto Cardenal, Carolyn Cassady, Don Cherry, Francisco Clemente, Andrei Codrescu, Gregory Corso, The Dalai Lama, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Karen Finley, The Fugs, and many more.
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Beating Off The Squares, By Michael Simmons,
This review is from: Beat (Hardcover)
Christopher Felver is a photographer of great accomplishment and I've long dug his work capturing the souls of hipsters on film. His new photo and ephemera collection is called BEAT and is published by Last Gasp. Here's 200 pages of Beat Generation poet/writer/artist heroes like Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many others. It includes those who didn't strictly belong to that generation but who made art of some kind with first allegiance to the art, not commerce. Ed Sanders, John Sinclair, Hunter S. Thompson, and Ken Kesey are four younger-than-Beat heroes in Felver's book who did not pimp out their muse.
For all the drugs, alcohol, suicide, and profuse misery justifiably associated with sensitive artists, Felver captures his subjects at the moment they are getting a joke. Many are already laughing. The ability to capture this precious instant proves that Felver is at the same high watermark as his subjects. One cannot purchase the ability to get the joke, but if you're searching for smiles, you'll find them a-plenty in BEAT. It's near-impossible to be a proper art-for-arts'-sake artist in 21st Century America. Cheap rents in major cities have disappeared. One apparently needs an arsenal of technology to create in the cyber age. Mechanized transportation is becoming prohibitive with the price of fuel and reality of global warming. Constant awareness is no longer merely an artistic state, but mandatory for the survival of the planet. Recognition of the absurd and the laughter that accompanies it will help beat off the squares and their Apocalypse. We can, in part, thank Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Chris Felver, and Anton Rosenberg.
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Chris Felver's creative look at the writers who make up the Beat Generation offers a visual perspective that is new and exciting but with the timeless skill of a Robert Frank. The authors are captured for their individualism. Additionally, Felver has interwoven text and original manuscript material throughout the book. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great poet, is editor of Felver's boyish enthusiasm. Felver is able to transfer the passion that he felt to his story and the photography. He makes an emotional connection to the reader and to the photographs with his own transformative story.
Felver uses an old Leica and the sliver gelatin print to capture the texture and character of the artists and writers. As Amiri Baraka states in the intro, he gets the shots because he is a "photo terrorist" willing to take risks and be with people in places to where other photographers would not venture.The book ends with a powerful photograph of Corso laid out in his coffin. Implying the circle is of life is finite but never ending. The book works on a number of different levels and is high sophisticated experience. If you are a follower of the Beat movement or just a fan of a writer or two of the period, do not hesitate to buy this book. I could not put it down and found myself mesmerized by the photography and Felver's story. Unlike other books that portray the Beats, Felver invites you in to be a part of his journey. You get to know the writers and photographers, artists, and musicians and him. Beat is an important achievment by this talented and innovative photographer.
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DEAR AMAZON,WE REPRESENT THIS ARTIST IN BRASIL. IN ADDITION TO BEING A FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPHER. HE IS AN
AWARD WINNING FILM MAKER LOOK AT HIS WEB PAGE chrisfelver.com WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART. THIS BOOK IS AWARD WINNING.WE ARE DOING A MUSEUM EXHIBITION IN BRASIL ON THE "BEAT GENERATION" ON WHICH THIS BOOK IS ABOUT.BIG HUG, MELTON
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