In this massive undertaking of portraiture, documentary artist and photographer Christopher Felver celebrates the present moment of the anarchistic face of the new genius. Over the previous two decades, Felver has 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. It is always a revelation to see what the face reveals and conceals, so this is a book full of reticence, revelation, and permission. Counted among the more than 400 people portrayed are Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, Hunter S. Thompson, Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, Maya Angelou, David Byrne, Willem De Kooning, Patti Smith, Robert Pinsky, Arlo Guthrie, Kathy Acker, Louise Nevelson, Salman Rushdie, Francesco Clemente, Norman Mailer, Anjelica Huston, Abbie Hoffman, and many more.