So, where did Jack Kerouac go?: Big Picture

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I'm introduced to Marcus one evening in a Mission bar. He is a photographic artist and a friend of Amy's who left New York two years ago to settle in San Francisco. The very active and creative artist communities drew him here. He lives with two roommate in a Victorian house typical of SF, in the Lower Haight.

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I am lead by him to Corona Hill, which offers a beautiful panorama of the City. He values this place in particular to gain perspective on things... "Corona Hill is the best unknown view of the City."

Some photos by Pierre-Olivier Labbe

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This novel relates the wanderings of the 'pope' of the Beat Generation across 1950's America. Right after its publication in 1957, it became the emblematic book for: the 50's, the emerging counter-culture of the 60's, the Beatnik movement, and the changes in values contributing to American identity.
New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles... this photo-report hopes to follow the same path, now 50 years later, that Kerouac had taken. It also hopes to exhibit a familiarity with this immense country through a mosaic of portraits and landscapes witnessing to Kerouac's spirit and, as a whole, to the Beat Generation's spirit -- all the while pondering a place and time when George W. Bush holds the country's reins.

So, where did Jack Kerouac go?

Big Picture - My SF by Marcus

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Some photos by Pierre-Olivier Labbe

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