Notes from the Margins: Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier

Notes from the Margins offers a timely reconsideration of two distinct yet unexpectedly resonant artistic legacies. Bringing together Ginsberg’s poetic and photographic sensibility with Maier’s extraordinary street photography, the exhibition explores how each transformed everyday experience into a powerful record of memory, observation, and human presence.

Notes from the Margins features approximately 80 modern and vintage prints, along with Maier’s experimental film footage and a film of Ginsberg reciting his poem “Howl.” Self-portraits and the urban landscape are a recurring thread through the exhibition. Together, Ginsberg’s and Maier’s work reveals two singular modes of looking: one public and outspoken, the other private and elusive.

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, New York, 1953 - Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery.