Times Square looking south, 1954 is copyright © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier (back center) in Richard Brooks’s Blackboard Jungle, 1955 is copyright © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
John Cassavetes is copyright © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Jonas Mekas, 1959. Jean–Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean–Luc Godard’s Breathless (A Bout de Souffle), 1959 is copyright ©Anthology Film Archives.
John Graham and Arshile Corky, circa 1934 is copyright © Archive of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Alan Watts, 1950s is copyright © Archive Photo.
Norman Mailer, early 1950s is copyright © Archive Photo.
Woody Guthrie, 1943 is copyright © Al Aumuller/Collections of the Library of Congress.
Gil Evans, 1956 is copyright © Corbis Bettmann.
Cab Calloway in full zoot, 1943 is copyright © Corbis Bettmann.
Kenny “Klook” Clarke, 1955 is copyright © Corbis Bettmann.
Lucky Luciano, accompanied by an Italian policeman, leaves Genoa for his native Sicily, 1947 is copyright © Corbis Bettmann.
Left: Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number 1,1935. Right: John Dillinger shortly before he was killed, a Colt .38 in one hand, a submachine gun in the other, 1934 is copyright © Corbis Bettmann.
Chano Pozo, conguero, 1947 is copyright © B.M.I. Archives.
Frank “Machito” Grillo and Grade la: mambo at the Savoy, late 1940s is copyright © Brown Bros.
Willem de Kooning, 1937 is copyright © Rudy Burckhardt/Tibor De Nagy Gallery.
Jean-Paul Sartre in his trademark sheepskin jacket in Paris, late 1940s is copyright © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum.
Robert Rauschenberg, 1968 is copyright © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum.
Marlon Brando, circa 1954 is copyright © Joan Cohen.
James Dean in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 is copyright © Joan Cohen.
Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso (with his back to the camera), David Amram, and Allen Ginsberg take a break from filming Robert Frank and Al Leslie’s Pull My Daisy, 1959 is copyright © John Cohen, courtesy Deborah Bell, New York.
Josef and Anni Albers arriving in New York from Nazi Germany on their way to Black Mountain College, 1933 is copyright © Corbis.
Times Square looking south, 1954 is copyright © Culver Pictures.
John Cage, 1940s is copyright © Culver Pictures.
Pete Seeger, 1966 is copyright © Bruce Davidson/Magnum.
Stuart Davis at the piano, circa 1926 is copyright © Earl Davis.
Judith Molina and Julian Beck as Antigone and Creon in the Living Theatre production of Antigone, 1968 is copyright © Department of Special Collections, University of California Library, Davis, California.
Juliette Greco on stage at La Rose Rouge, Paris, 1950 is copyright © Robert Doisneau/Rapho Paris.
D. T. Suzuki in New York, early 1950s is copyright © Boris Erwitt/Magnum.
Andre Breton in America, circa 1945 is copyright © Charles Henri Ford.
William S. Burroughs in New York, fall 1953 is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr at Columbia University the day before the murder of David Kammerer, 1944 is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Joan Vollmer in the only known photo of her when she was with Burroughs, probably I ate 1940s is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Allen Ginsberg in the merchant marine, New York harbor, 1947 is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Herbert Huncke, circa 1953 is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
“Meal at the Wheel”: Neal Cassady and Ann Murphy, 1950s is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Gregory Corso at the “Beat Hotel” 9 rue Git-Le-Coeur, Paris, 1957 is copyright © Allen Ginsberg Trust.
Amiri Baraka, holding his newborn daughter, Kellie, 1959 is copyright © Burt Glinn/Magnum.
Merce Cunningham rehearsing his company, circa 1957 is copyright © Burt Glinn/Magnum.
Lelia Goldoni in John Cassavetes’s Shadows, 1960 is copyright © Lelia Goldoni.
Cab Calloway in full zoot, 1943 is copyright © William P. Gottlieb.
52nd Street at night, 1948 is copyright © William P. Gottlieb.
Bob Dylan in New York, 1965. is copyright © Daniel Kramer.
Dorothy Day in jail after an anti—Civil Defense protest in New York, July 1954 is copyright © Robert Lax.
Jackie McLean holding a saxophone in The Connection with Jimmie Anderson as Sam in the background, 1959 is copyright © The Living Theatre.
Carl Lee as Cowboy in The Connection with Ira Lewis as Jaybird in the background 1959 is copyright © The Living Theatre.
Charles Olson in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1968. Photo by Gerard Mahnga is copyright © Gerard Malanga.
Andy Warhol at the Factory, 1964. Photo by Lorenz Gude. Courtesy of the Gerard Malanga Collection is copyright © Gerard Malanga.
Nico at The Factory, 1966. Photo by Gerard Malanga. © Gerard Malanga is copyright © Gerard Malanga.
Two Blue Note album covers designed by Reid Miles; Jackie McCtecm’s Destination Out! and Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 is copyright © Reid Miles.
Antonin Artaud (right) as a priest in Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1328 is copyright © The Museum of Modern Art/Film Still Archive.
Chesley Bonestell’s painting Atom Bombing of New York, which appeared in Collier’s magazine, 1950 is copyright © The New York Historical Society.
Charlie Parker Capitol Records, Hollywood, January 17,1946 is copyright © Michael Ochs Archive.
Billy Eckstine, 1945 is copyright © Michael Ochs Archive.
Billie Holiday, circa 1945 is copyright © Michael Ochs Archive.
Marcel Duchamp (top) with painter Joseph Stella, 1920 is copyright © Man Ray/J. Paul Getty Trust.
Peggy Guggenheim sitting on her Frederick Kiesler-desiqned bed in her palazzo on the Grand Canal, Venice, 1350 is copyright © David Seymour/Magnum.
Gary Snyder on the Sea of Japan, 1959 is copyright © Gary Snyder.
Gil Evans, 1956 is copyright © Bill Spilka/Metronome Magazine/Archive Photos.
Gerry Mulligan, 1956 is copyright © Bill Spilka/Metronome Magazine/Archive Photos.
Miles Davis live in New York City, 1958 is copyright © Dennis Stock/Magnum.
Lester Young, mid-1950s is copyright © Dennis Stock/Magnum.
Thelonious Monk playing at Town Hall, New York, 1958 is copyright © Dennis Stock/Magnum.
Lenny Bruce, 1959 is copyright © Dennis Stock/Magnum.
Jackson Pollock at the Springs, Long Island, New York, 1947 is copyright © Time-Life Syndication.
Warren Finnerty as Leach in The Connection, 1959 is copyright © John E. Wulp/The Living Theatre.