Portraits of poets, authors, and artists and miscellaneous photographs [graphic] / photographed by Gui de Angulo. 1948-1980, bulk 1958-1963.

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Portraits of poets, authors, and artists and miscellaneous photographs [graphic] / photographed by Gui de Angulo. 1948-1980, bulk 1958-1963.

Includes portraits of many beat generation figures and San Francisco Bay Area artistic and literary personalities. Included are Gregory Corso, Jean Varda, Richard Brautigan, Allen Ginsberg, Manuel Neri, Guy Wernham, filmmaker Ron Rice, Peter Orlovsky, James Keilty, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Shigeyoshi Murao, Chris Maclaine, Philip Lamantia, Harry Redl, Knute Stiles, William Everson, and Roger Sturtevant. Several views relate to San Francisco's Dilexi Gallery and its founders, and some were taken of performances at Fugazi Hall in North Beach. Also present are a few views and studies of buildings and trees. Some portraits and views were taken in New York, and others in the San Francisco Bay Area.

2 boxes (57 photographic prints) : b&w ; 31 x 27 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7671099

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and publisher, most closely associated with the Beat movement. Born in New York, Ferlinghetti suffered several family-related tragedies in his youth, and was raised in unusual circumstances. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II, and continued his education at Columbia and The Sorbonne. He moved to San Francisco, where he co-founded City Lights book store and publishing house, which became integral wi...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Neri, Manuel, 1930-....

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Sculptor; Benecia, California. From the description of Manuel Neri papers, 1940-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565805 Manuel Neri (1930- ) is a sculptor and educator living and working in Benecia, Calif. Neri taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1959-1965 and at the University of California, Davis from 1965-1999. Neri is best known for his life size figurative sculptures. From the description of Oral history intervie...

Keilty, James, d. 1978

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Varda, Jean

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Painter; Sausalito, Calif. Born 1893, died 1971. From the description of Jean Varda papers, [ca. 1950-1971]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455141 ...

Weiss, Ruth, 1928-

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Wernham, Guy

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Maclaine, Christopher

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Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005

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American poet. From the description of Cool ; New York blank poem New York ; [typed letter signed, to LeRoi Jones] : typescripts, 1959 / Philip Lamantia. 1959. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423222 ...

Murao, Shigeyoshi

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Sturtevant, Roger (American photographer, died 1982)

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Roger Sturtevant (1903-1982) was the recipient of the American Institute of Architect's first architectural photography medal in 1960. Born in Alameda, California, Sturtevant gained recognition for his photography of buildings by Bay Area and other Western architects. From the description of Roger Sturtevant collection [graphic] ca. 1934-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43832502 ...

Angulo, Gui de

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

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Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...

Dilexi Gallery

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Rice, Ron

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Everson, William, 1912-1994

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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...

Stiles, Knute, 1923-

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American collage artist. Attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In 1953, Stiles and Leo Krikorian opened The Place, a bar in San Francisco's North Beach. Among the Beat era poets, artists, musicians and filmmakers that frequented The Place were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Richard Brautigan, and Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Knute Stiles papers, 1948-2005. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 77058106 Collage artist and wr...

Brautigan, Richard

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Edna Webster was a close personal friend of Brautigan's. Her son, Peter, was Brautigan's best friend during the time these materials were written. Her daughter, Linda, was Brautigan's "first love." From the description of Richard Brautigan papers, [195-]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122556663 American writer (novelist, poet). Born Tacoma, Washington, January 30 1935. Died Bolinas, California, September 1984. For many, Brautigan was a quintessent...

Redl, Harry

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