{"product_id":"joey-tranchina-joey-tranchina-9783958299092","title":"Joey Tranchina: Beatitude: The Beat Attitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fresh and unusually deep dive into the Beats and their legacy through rarely seen portraits of Burroughs, McClure and more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a fresh, deep look at the Beat movement that changed the world in the decades following World War II. The book draws from the archive of little-known poet\/photographer Joey Tranchina, who began documenting Beat culture in 1970. He chronicled surviving Beat predecessors and bohemians from the 1930s; he located the Beat founders from the East and West Coasts and their descendants, creative spirits from both the visual and performing arts and from public policy and science. His photographs cast a wide net: the Beat precursors Kenneth Rexroth and Thelonious Monk, founders Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, and early feminist poets Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel. Beat culture welcomed poets of social and cultural change Amiri Baraka and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and folk singers David Crosby and Phil Ochs, punk master Iggy Pop, rocker Country Joe McDonald, and activists Louis Lomax and Miriam Patchen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritic and art historian Anthony Bannon discovers a strong Beat aesthetic among the more than 80 artists depicted by Tranchina, stretching into the 21st century. Bannon argues that central to the Beat ethos are the concepts of spirit, change, freedom and values. Tranchina's photographs lead the way to appreciating these remarkable men and women; through their stories \u003ci\u003eBeatitude\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates both their experiences and this moment in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Northern California in 1945, \u003cb\u003eJoey Tranchina\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, photographer and activist. He worked with San Francisco State's Poetry Center to present visiting artists and created the largest archive of first, second and third generation Beat poets by a single photographer. Few of Tranchina's Beat portraits have been published, save for a handful in the San Francisco literary bulletin \u003ci\u003ePoetry Flash\u003c\/i\u003e and the 1980 \u003ci\u003eCody's Calendar of Contemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. The entirety of his Beat archive was discovered in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joey Tranchina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3958299091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783958299092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Joey Tranchina","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943959724287,"sku":"9783958299092","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b7b29a68-bc97-4fbf-9b31-98a79f93512c.jpg?v=1681500988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joey-tranchina-joey-tranchina-9783958299092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}