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Allen Ginsberg's Beat Family Album

Allen Ginsberg said his pictures "all had a story to tell" and added captions to help. He described the circumstances in which Jack Kerouac was "making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om" while strolling downtown Manhattan.

The Allen Ginsberg Trust, used with permission of the Wylie Agency LLC

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