Allen Ginsberg
☼ Born on 3 December 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, USA
† Died on 5 December 1997, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, cause liver cancer
BiographyLouis Ginsberg, the moderate Jewish Socialist and his wife Naomi, who was a radical Communist and irrepressible nudist are the parents of Irwin Allen Ginsberg, the poet and man of many other things eg. actor. Poems he written eg. Howl, Six gallery, Sunflower Sutra ... His themes: drugs, against Vietnam War, politics, "beat generation", hippies, buddhism, ... In 1970 he met with a Tibetan guru and he accepted Trungpa Rinpoche as his personal guru. He created a poetry school 'Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics'. He has remained active, publishing poems, realising musical recordings. He published a book with his own photos.
In the role of actor
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (27/04/2018)
The brief career of experimental filmmaker Barbara Rubin is explored in Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground. In 1964, Barbra Rubin made her mark with the release of her experimental art-porn film Christmas on Earth. She quickly became a key member of the New York Underground, along with Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, before unexpectedly deciding to […]
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (24/06/2017)
Errol Morris documents the career of photographer Elsa Dorfman in The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman‘s Portrait Photography. Elsa Dorfman is a “nice Jewish woman,” who found herself partaking in a career as a photographer in New York of the mid-1960s, with Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg being some of her most notable subjects. For most of her career, […]