DA LEGGERE
"The Beats: Pictures of a Legend", di Edmund White, a commento della mostra "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg", alla National Gallery di Washington D.C., fino al 16 settembre. "Both Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs discovered late in life that making works of art is the way to get money. Literature just doesn’t do it. Speaking engagements pay, but eventually they become tiring—or one exhausts the market. Neither of the two had ever been money-mad, but old age requires a bit of a cushion. Burroughs turned to painting. ... Ginsberg had been taking snapshots of friends with a borrowed camera since the mid-1940s. In 1953 he bought a small Kodak Retina camera for $13 secondhand at a Bowery pawnshop, and for the next ten years he photographed all his friends and activities in a casual, spontaneous way." nybooks. (nella foto Jack Kerouac)