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The Free Exploring Mind
Jack Kerouac Alley quotation outside City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, CA.
“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world” – John Steinbeck
Photographs in this collection have been produced by Heather Do, Connor Rowe, Kathleen Markham, Alison Lowrie, Kenneth Chiu, Katie Salmond, Diana Chavez, Elena Toffalori, Ashley Vink, Aimee O'Dea, Liz Dolinar, Allison Barden, Justine Khoury, Daniela Alaniz-Roux, and Justin Thach at the request of Michael Ashley for the UC Berkeley Anthropology 136e class, Spring 2011. The purpose was to digitally document the cultural heritage of City Lights Bookstore to show the cultural and spatial relations between City Lights and Vesuvio Café. The images were intentionally framed and shot to show the close connection of the two places.
City Lights Bookstore (Latitude 37.79771, Longitude -122.40647) is located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco at the Broadway and Columbus intersection. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin founded City Lights Books in 1953. They created the first all-paperback bookstore in the United States. Today, it is known as “one of the few truly independent bookstores in the United States” where people come to witness what is described as a “Literary Landmark (City Lights).” The bookstore was popular with the “beatnik” generation and the legacy of anti-authoritarian politics and insurgent thinking can still be felt today. While the area around the bookstore has changed, there continues to be a strong beatnik influence in the store as seen in the types of books offered. The store has expanded since opening in 1953, and now offers three floors of new-release hardcovers and paperbacks. In 2001, City Lights was dedicated as a historic landmark. Today, Ferlinghetti co-owns the store with Nancy Peters.
This photograph was shot by Alison Lowrie on March 28, 2011 between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm Pacific Time under sunny conditions. Photos were captured on a Canon Rebel T2i DSLR. The photos were post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Katie Salmond and Kenneth Chiu, following Addison’s proposed virtual heritage metadata format in his chapter “The Vanishing Virtual” in New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by Kalay, et al., and published by Routledge in 2007.
Further information about City Lights bookstore can be found at www.citylights.com.
All photos Copyright ©2011 Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0
For more information contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA,
94720 or visit www.codifi.info/licensing
For more information contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA,
94720 or visit www.codifi.info/licensing
Original Filename: CAM23_AL_034.dng
The Free Exploring Mind
Jack Kerouac Alley quotation outside City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, CA.
“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world” – John Steinbeck
Photographs in this collection have been produced by Heather Do, Connor Rowe, Kathleen Markham, Alison Lowrie, Kenneth Chiu, Katie Salmond, Diana Chavez, Elena Toffalori, Ashley Vink, Aimee O'Dea, Liz Dolinar, Allison Barden, Justine Khoury, Daniela Alaniz-Roux, and Justin Thach at the request of Michael Ashley for the UC Berkeley Anthropology 136e class, Spring 2011. The purpose was to digitally document the cultural heritage of City Lights Bookstore to show the cultural and spatial relations between City Lights and Vesuvio Café. The images were intentionally framed and shot to show the close connection of the two places.
City Lights Bookstore (Latitude 37.79771, Longitude -122.40647) is located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco at the Broadway and Columbus intersection. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin founded City Lights Books in 1953. They created the first all-paperback bookstore in the United States. Today, it is known as “one of the few truly independent bookstores in the United States” where people come to witness what is described as a “Literary Landmark (City Lights).” The bookstore was popular with the “beatnik” generation and the legacy of anti-authoritarian politics and insurgent thinking can still be felt today. While the area around the bookstore has changed, there continues to be a strong beatnik influence in the store as seen in the types of books offered. The store has expanded since opening in 1953, and now offers three floors of new-release hardcovers and paperbacks. In 2001, City Lights was dedicated as a historic landmark. Today, Ferlinghetti co-owns the store with Nancy Peters.
This photograph was shot by Alison Lowrie on March 28, 2011 between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm Pacific Time under sunny conditions. Photos were captured on a Canon Rebel T2i DSLR. The photos were post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Katie Salmond and Kenneth Chiu, following Addison’s proposed virtual heritage metadata format in his chapter “The Vanishing Virtual” in New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by Kalay, et al., and published by Routledge in 2007.
Further information about City Lights bookstore can be found at www.citylights.com.
All photos Copyright ©2011 Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0
For more information contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA,
94720 or visit www.codifi.info/licensing
For more information contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA,
94720 or visit www.codifi.info/licensing
Original Filename: CAM23_AL_034.dng