Joey Tranchina: BEATITUDE
Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Portraits of Beat Generation Icons Kicks Off Photo Centre鈥檚 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.
This collection of images taken in the 1960s and 鈥�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, who will discuss the exhibition at a special presentation at the Palm Beach Central Library on October 21.
BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a 鈥淏eat鈥� 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鈥檚 photographs, with an essay by Bannon and introduction by American Book Award winning poet Ed Sanders, is forthcoming internationally from Steidl Verlag.
鈥淭ranchina鈥檚 work must be the most extensive pictorial assembly of Beat related artists and thinkers depicted by a single photographer,鈥� says Dr. Bannon, the author of 49 books and emeritus director (1996-2012) of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. 鈥淭he photographs, rendered in dramatic black and white, include masterful representations of the heroes recognized in their time by Nobel and Pulitzer awards, Academy and Obie prizes for film and theater, and appointments by both the Rock 鈥榥鈥� Roll Hall of Fame and the American Society of Arts and Letters. Here are the poets laureate named by states and nations and the recipients of the highest praise granted internationally through university doctorates.鈥�
鈥淭hese were the international thought leaders,鈥� adds Lusitana, who organized the archive for exhibition and publication and served as the artist鈥檚 project director. 鈥淛oey Tranchina cast a wide net in his own appreciation and participation in the global change of culture. Time has supported his selections, including Nobel Prize winning Czeslaw Milosz; the great Russian poets whose readings came to fill a sports stadium, namely Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky; and Margaret Atwood, an early contributor to Beat publications in Canada.鈥�
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Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Portraits of Beat Generation Icons Kicks Off Photo Centre鈥檚 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.
This collection of images taken in the 1960s and 鈥�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, who will discuss the exhibition at a special presentation at the Palm Beach Central Library on October 21.
BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a 鈥淏eat鈥� 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鈥檚 photographs, with an essay by Bannon and introduction by American Book Award winning poet Ed Sanders, is forthcoming internationally from Steidl Verlag.
鈥淭ranchina鈥檚 work must be the most extensive pictorial assembly of Beat related artists and thinkers depicted by a single photographer,鈥� says Dr. Bannon, the author of 49 books and emeritus director (1996-2012) of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. 鈥淭he photographs, rendered in dramatic black and white, include masterful representations of the heroes recognized in their time by Nobel and Pulitzer awards, Academy and Obie prizes for film and theater, and appointments by both the Rock 鈥榥鈥� Roll Hall of Fame and the American Society of Arts and Letters. Here are the poets laureate named by states and nations and the recipients of the highest praise granted internationally through university doctorates.鈥�
鈥淭hese were the international thought leaders,鈥� adds Lusitana, who organized the archive for exhibition and publication and served as the artist鈥檚 project director. 鈥淛oey Tranchina cast a wide net in his own appreciation and participation in the global change of culture. Time has supported his selections, including Nobel Prize winning Czeslaw Milosz; the great Russian poets whose readings came to fill a sports stadium, namely Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky; and Margaret Atwood, an early contributor to Beat publications in Canada.鈥�
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