In Ordered World, Christopher Felver celebrates the elemental essences of manmade and natural objects that tend to elude most people in everyday life. Felver’s aesthetic universe pits the obvious boundaries of architectural glass and steel against the more interior textures of nature, the glossy sheen of an industrial object or roughly stacked iron ingots in a foundry versus the grain of wood in a cross-cut tree or the curvature of a nude body. Ordered World recognizes the beauty of structure and likewise the underlying structure of beauty in a series of pictures that is remarkable both for its tightly honed cohesion and diversity of content.

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Tending the Fire pairs portraits of Native American poets and writers with their handwritten poetry or prose. In these commanding photographs, Felver’s distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist’s strength, integrity and character. As each author shares their unique voice, Tending the Fire introduces us to the diversity and complexity of Native culture through the authors’ passionate stories.

Never before has there been a book filled with this many photographs of Beat Era personalities—the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature. Includes photos of: Kathy Acker, David Amram, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Francisco Clemente, Andrei Codrescu, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Fugs, and many more.

A complex and many-faceted life is given its due in this inspired photographic history of Ginsberg’s life from 1980 through 1997. The Late Great Allen Ginsberg is a deeply moving recollection of America’s most important post-World War II poet, informed by Ginsberg’s sensitivity, his love of life, and his humanitarianism. 

In this massive undertaking of portraiture, Christopher Felver celebrates the present moment of the anarchistic face of the new genius. Over two decades, Felver traveled the United States and Europe, portraying the greatest creative forces of our times – writers, poets, filmmakers, actors, visual artists, protesters, and those engaged in the struggle for expression during the late twentieth century. This spectacular international family of faces is an anthology of the most adventurous discoverers in language and the visual arts.

Beat poet and author of Coney Island of the Mind, one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the subject of this insightful and stunning collection of photographs taken by Chris Felver. Some of the best-loved poems, including a never-before-published poem, of Ferlinghetti are blended with this photographic portrait, revealing Lawrence to his readers — an intimate look at one of America’s most-revered poets.

In Angels, Anarchists & Gods, Felver assembles a community of individuals whose lives and work nourish America’s historic dream of freedom, justice, and human decency. The citizens of Felver’s republic are eminent figures in American arts, letters, music, and politics who, as Douglas Brinkley writes in his introduction, “are not afraid of controversy or challenging the status quo.” The two hundred images in Angels, Anarchists & Gods speak to the shared cultural heritage of unrestrained voice and stubborn struggle. Behind every one is the sharp, caring eye of a man whose passion for great art and social justice converge to form an intimate tribute to the progressive energizers of the human spirit.

In this collection of 100 portraits of contemporary poets, Felver attempts to capture the intensity, the personality and the passion of his subjects. Accompanying each portrait are lines in the poet’s own handwriting, adding to the charm and introspective nature of the images.

In January 1984, two San Francisco artists — poet-publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and photographer Chris Felver — spent a week visiting Nicaragua as guests of the Nicaraguan poet and minister of culture, Father Ernesto Cardenal. Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre collates Ferlinghetti’s day-by-day journal of their stay, with Felver’s on-the-spot commentary photos.