A Rogue's Gallery of Literary and Artistic Types

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All photos copyright 2004 by Alastair Johnston
October 1978
Larry Kearney
March 1980
Don Guravich & Joanne Kyger
Venice, California
1984
Darrell Gray checking proofs at Poltroon Press, Berkeley
April 1988
Bob Creeley in the abandoned
train station, Buffalo, New York
March 1988 "Acute Actualism"
Cast of Darrell Gray's play, BOB, Blake Street Hawkeyes theatre, Berkeley: G.P. Skratz, Nanos Valaoritis, Gloria Frym, Steve Lavoie, Alastair Johnston
May 1982
Rock Legends Liquid Paper at
Club Generic, San Francisco
Alastair Johnston, Jim Nisbet, Kenny, Simone Lazzeri, Liz
April 1981
Party at Rodefer's, Oakland
Steve Rodefer, Carla Harryman, Ben Rodefer, Alan Bernheimer, Ahni Robinson, Kit Robinson, Frances Foley
August 1979
Relaxing with Shelly
Joanne Kyger, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Shelly Vogel
Santa Barbara, California
July 6, 1989
Good friends at my birthday party on Lucia Berlin's roof, Oakland: Steve Lavoie, Jaime Robles, Gloria Frym
January 1, 1991
Three "fine" printers
Jack Stauffacher, A. Johnston, Graham Mackintosh
Greenwood Press, SF
July 1979
5 Poets in Big Sur: Darrell Gray,
Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Jim
Nisbet, Joanne Kyger, Don
Guravich (shortly before Darrell took a header off the cliff)
August 1979
Anselm Hollo and Darrell Gray
Kornblums', West Branch, Iowa
August 1982
Asa Benveniste at Sylvia Plath's grave, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. (He is now buried nearby.)
August 1979
David Lance Goines balances a
drink on his knee
Poltroon Press, Berkeley
August 1987
Lucia Berlin
on Joyce Jenkins' roof, Ashby Avenue, Oakland
October 1998
Joey de Vivre and Steve Lavoie on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County
August 1985
David Bromige at Joanne Kyger's, Bolinas
October 1985
Ben Friedlander and Larry Eigner
McGee St, Berkeley
October 1980
Johanna Drucker
Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
November 1984
Larry Eigner at home, Berkeley
October 1985
Bob Grenier
November 1981
Jaime Robles in San Leandro, California
June 1985
Larry Kearney & Joanne Kyger
at Safdie-Schromm wedding, Inverness Yacht Club
May 1983
Steven Paul LaVoie, Oakland
July 2000
Film maker Steve Fagin
at Poltroon Press garden party
August 1979
Graham Mackintosh sitting Zazen
in Santa Barbara, California
September 1981
Nancy Kosenka after a night of slam-dancing at the Mabuhay Gardens
February 1985
Philip Whalen reading
on St Valentine's Day, San Francisco
May 1981
Darrell Gray
accidental double-exposure with picture of dog
July 1983
screenwriter Gordon Hann & A. Johnston in an Indian restaurant, Brixton, South London
March 1980
Joanne Kyger
Venice, California
February 1985?
Michael Wolfe and Alastair Johnston in Joanne Kyger's
garden, Bolinas
February 1980
S. Clay Wilson, Karen Landsdown, Michael Myers
Poltroon Press, Berkeley
August 1979
Jim Nisbet at Rob Klein's place,
Big Sur
December 1987
Pat Reed, Phil Whalen, Jim Nisbet watching tv in my bedroom, Oakland, California
August 1980
Frances Butler in Lewisham Park, London
August 1985
Barry Hall & Tom Raworth
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
May 1981
Steve Rodefer
Willard pool, Berkeley
April 1980
Leslie Scalapino
San Francisco, California
August 1985
Tom Raworth
Summer 2004
AJ & Matthew Carter
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
photo: the Duchess
August 1980
Tom & Val Raworth
"Reality Checkpoint"
Cambridge, UK
September 2001
AJ explaining the concept of x-height to Hermann Zapf
San Francisco Center for the Book
photo: the Duchess
August 2003
Moi et Massin
San Francisco Center for the Book
photo: the Duchess
Summer 2004
AJ & "El Kevin" Power
Chinatown, San Francisco
photo: the Duchess
July 2004
Jan Middendorp, Safi Mafundikwa & AJ exchanging autographs
TypeCon, San Francisco
photo: the Duchess
July 2004
AJ & John Berry
Eddie Rickenbacker's, SF
photo: the Duchess
July 1997
AJ & Holbrook Teter
San Francisco Center for the Book