Allen Ginsberg Handwritten Notes - "Photographic Poetics"
Double-sided single page of handwritten notes entitled "Photographic Poetics." On March 15, 1988, Allen Ginsberg was invited to give a lecture as part of the series “Focus on Photography” at Harvard University. The talk was entitled “Photographic Poetics,” and it brought Ginsberg’s two major artistic passions into dialogue with one another. The lecture also accompanied an exhibition in the print room of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA) of Ginsberg’s photographic portraits consisting of numerous “Beat memories” that featured his literary friends and comrades from the 1950s and early- 60s (Kaplan, 2015). This present document is presumably an outline for his talk, complete with numerous "Photographic Poetics Examples." From the collection of Jacqueline Gens, Ginsberg's longtime archivist and secretary.
Singe 8.5" x 11" inch page, writing on both sides. Loss to one corner of the page, with a complete closed tear to the other. Protected in a removable archival sleeve.
