Transparent Press is a boutique agency interested in the development of forgotten or otherwise overlooked photographic archives - bringing lost stories of our collective human history to life in the digital age.

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Introducing Joey Tranchina

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The 60s Los Angeles book was conceived and produced in 2018. A revised version of Tranchina’s poetic photographs of vintage L.A. is in the works.

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Project In Development: Book and traveling exhibition of Tranchina’s archive of formal portraits and insider’s reportage of Beat Poets includes the Movement’s early progenitors and their descendants, who heralded San Francisco’s transformative Second Renaissance in the 1970s .

William Burroughs backstage at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, CA 1977

William Burroughs backstage at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, CA 1977

 
Lawrence Ferlinghetti crowns Gregory Corso and son, San Francisco, CA 1977.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti crowns Gregory Corso and son, San Francisco, CA 1977.