Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac, Manhattan, ca. September 1953 Photography by Allen Ginsberg, Courtesy of PrestelAllen Ginsberg was in many ways the beating heart of the Beat Generation. The group's most vocal leader, he was ambitious and driven, and utterly convinced that he and his cohorts – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac et al – would achieve "the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art," in contradiction to their insipid contemporaries. The Howl poet was the first to submit Kerouac'...