The exhibition of Allen Ginsberg's photographs hosted by the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles includes poems created by an artificial intelligence that was «trained» on the photographs themselves; the poems are advertised as «written from Allen Ginsberg's photographs».
Ginsberg acquired his first camera - a Kodak Retina - in 1953 and began frantically capturing his friends and lovers; he saw these photographs as «sacred». «His photographs have precisely that intimacy with deep respect and admiration for his friends that is an important component of his poetry: admiration and respect for humanity, a hymn,» said, speaking to Artnet News, Peter Hale of the Allen Ginsberg Foundation.
