Auteur: Jill Johnston

Frederick William McDarrah (1926 – 2007) was a photographer at Village Voice for over 50 years. He became famous for documenting the Beat Generation, the New York art world, the New York School and the world of Abstract expressionism in New York City during the 1950s. After joining Village Voice, he chronicled the city, its people and its rebellions, including the Stonewall Riots and every annual Gay Pride that followed. His work is a record of the progressive ideas and politics born in the second half of the 20th Century, ideas that have shaped New York and the world ever since. Allen Ginsberg was an American poet, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. Hiton Als is an American writer, cultural critic and LGBT activist. He is a staff writer at  New Yorker magazine, author of The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.