BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude – Photographs by Joey Tranchina

A stunning exhibition of over 70 images and commanding enlargements includes iconic culture-bending poets, activists, and artists of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, and more.  This collection of images taken in the 1960s and ’70s by poet/photographer/activist Joey Tranchina were stored away for nearly 50 years before being discovered by his son in 2018.  BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a “Beat” aesthetic which 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.