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In this photo author Jack Kerouac communes with Barbara Ferrara in 1959. The black and white photograph from the 1950s captures beatnik hippy writer Jack Kerouac in dark glasses and a beret.
The vintage gelatin silver RC print, 10" x 8" has an embossed Burt Glinn stamp in the margin (front of photo).
It is estate signed on back, and the celebrity image appears on page 54 of Burt Glinn's monograph The Beat Scene (RAP, 2018).
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Glinn photographed stars, personalities, and lifestyle subjects. A long illustrious photo career beginning in the 1950s, Burt Glinn worked commercially and editorially for more than five decades in the USA and abroad. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, photographer Burt Glinn (1925-2008) worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer at Magnum. Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951 along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock - the first Americans to join the young photo agency - and a full member in 1954. Versatile and technically brilliant, Glinn was one of Magnum's great corporate and advertising photographers. He also made his mark with spectacular color series on the South Seas. Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. Glinn published A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. His reportages have appeared in Esquire, Geo, Travel and Leisure, Fortune, Life and Paris-Match. He has covered the Sinai War, the US Marine invasion of Lebanon and Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba. In the 1990's he completed an extensive photo essay on the topic of medical science. He received numerous awards for his editorial and commercial photography.
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- Creation Year1959
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- ConditionGood
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- DimensionsH 10 in. x W 8 in.H 25.4 cm x W 20.32 cm
- Gallery LocationNew york, NY
- Reference NumberLU74633725902
- Seller Reference Number99Prints
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