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Museum Exhibit – BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude Photographs by Joey Tranchina
Exhibit: October 20 Through January 6 Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Portraits of Beat Generation Icons Kicks Off Photo Centre’s 35th Anniversary. This stunning exhibition of over 70 images and commanding enlargements includes iconic, culture-bending poets, activists, and artists of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Kenneth Rexroth, and more. Lenore Kandel at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, 1976. ©Joey Tranchina This collection of images taken in the 1960s and ’70s by little-known poet/ photographer/activist Joey Tranchina were stored away for nearly 50 years before being discovered by his son in 2018 and later shared with critic and art historian Dr. Anthony Bannon and art consultant and producer Dolores Lusitana. Kenneth Rexroth at the Santa Fe Poetry Festival, 1975. ©Joey Tranchina BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a “Beat” aesthetic who founded an early social movement that championed humanity over economy, ecology over industry, and equal rights for women and men regardless of race, social status, or sexual orientation. BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude, a book of Joey Tranchina’s photographs, with an essay by Bannon and introduction by American Book Award winning poet Ed Sanders, is forthcoming internationally from Steidl Verlag. Backstage at the San Francisco Poetry Center, 1979. ©Joey Tranchina “Tranchina’s work must be the most extensive pictorial assembly of Beat
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Cuba: The Ultimate Experience with Fatima NeJame November 12 - 19, 2023 Great Music, Great Dancers, Great Food, Great PHOTOGRAPHY! In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on and claimed the island now occupied by Cuba, for the Kingdom of Spain. Amid the warm crystalline waters of the sparkling Caribbean, over 500 years of roller-coaster history have conspired to create one of Latin America’s most electric and culturally unique societies. ‘Havana which recently celebrated its 500th year is very much like a rose,’ said Fico Fellove in the movie The Lost City, ‘it has petals and it has thorns…so it depends on how you grab it. But in the end it always grabs you.’ ©Fatima NeJame You will have the opportunity to explore and photograph local neighborhoods that very few get to experience, and to engage in person-to-person activities with Cubans and their everyday life. Meet with Cuban historians, teachers, artists, musicians, naturalists, and others, and experience this fast-changing island nation through their eyes. Work with some local photographers who will help you capture the essence of the Cuban people. ©Fatima NeJame Your cameras will record the warm vibrant people of this rapidly changing Caribbean nation. You will bring their lives, occupations and homes into today’s focus. Your experiences will be unique and you will be fascinated by the authenticity of each and
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