Twenty-one years old at the time, Keenan spent over a year documenting the heyday of the Beat Generation with a borrowed 35mm camera, photographing the Beats in their homes and with their families and friends. His portraits constitute a unique chronology and reportage of this era, and many of these photos have since become iconic images that represent a literary generation. Here, in this book of twenty postcards, is a timeless rendering of the spirit of the Beats.

Larry Keenan is a recipient of the prized Phelan Award for his fine art photography. He is also an award-winning advertising and corporate photographer who specializes in combining the traditional medium of photography with contemporary digital techniques. His photographs are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and were recently exhibited in the Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America and the Smithsonian Institute's REBELS: Artists and Poets of the '50s.