Item Information
Title: City Lights Bookstore, last gathering of poets/artists of the Beat generation
Date: 1965
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 22 x 18 cm.
Description: Title derived from handwritten note on verso of photograph.
Photograph shows a group of poets and artists gathered in front of the City Lights facade, some seated, some standing. Group in the front row, (L-R), includes: Robert LaVigne, Shig Murao, Larry Fagin, Leland Meyezove (lying down), Lew Welch, and Peter Orlovsky. The second row (L-R), includes: David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Langton, Steve (friend of Ginsberg), Richard Brautigan, Gary Goodrow, and Nemi Frost. The back row (L-R), includes: Stella Levy and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Identifications are taken from the photographer's website.
Creator: Keenan, Larry, 1943-, photographer
Forms part of: [Photographs of San Francisco artists]/ Larry Keenan, Jr, 1965-1966
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Larry Keenan. City Lights Bookstore, last gathering of poets/artists of the Beat generation, 1965. [Photographs of San Francisco artists]/ Larry Keenan, Jr, 1965-1966. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 12196