THE MANUSCRIPT
San Francisco 1966
Freewheelin Frank and Michael McClure were writing a book together about Frank's life as a Hell's Angel. It is an 'as told to' book because although Frank was the secretary of the local chapter of the Angels, he was illiterate (but he had a steel-trap memory). I saw the unfinished manuscript on McClure's bed and thought it was a good establishing photograph. Years later, I asked Michael why he did not use a computer in his work. He told me there would not be a hand written manuscript (typed with corrections/changes and drawings) for the archives and a diskette had no real value.