Allen Ginsberg dancing at A Gathering of the Tribes for the Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

Item

Title
Allen Ginsberg dancing at A Gathering of the Tribes for the Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Description
Allen Ginsberg dancing to music by the Grateful Dead at the January 14, 1967 "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park's Polo Fields. As an icon of the Beat movement and the bohemian ideas it represented, Ginsberg embraced the counterculture of the 1960s. A part of the Lisa Law Photography Collection at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Contributor
John Paul Mitchell Systems
Coverage
San Francisco, California
Creator
Lisa Law, Photographer
Date
1967-01-14
Identifier
1998.0139.046
Source
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_892470
Subject
Lisa Law-Human Be In-counterculture-protest-photography-hippie-Grateful Dead-Allen Ginsberg-San Fransico-Golden Gate Park
Type
photograph
Original Format
paper
Physical Dimensions
20" x 16"