’66 Frames

A memoir by Gordon Ball April 1, 1999 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 230 pages • 978-1-56689-082-3 A sixties memoir and an intriguing slice of avant garde film history. Part record of the New York underground art scene, part history of contemporary American avant-garde cinema—Gordon Ball’s vivid memoir lays bare the soul of a decade that redefined the photographic image.Featured within ’66 Frames are encounters with Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and many others as—in the words of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti—“the young Southern innocent sets forth in all his whiteness to find himself among visionary New York poets and other flaming creatures.” Here are nights on Washington Square park benches and a week in the fabled Dakota. Here’s everyday life with film pioneer Jonas Mekas in his Third Avenue loft, at his Filmmakers’ Cinematheque and Filmmakers’ Cooperative; visits with Andy Warhol at his Factory; anti-war marches; tension and violence between flower children and long-time residents of what would beco