Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist.

His photography spans over four decades and includes portraits, nudes and the urban documentation of "New York's Changing Scene."

[4] Malanga was born on March 20, 1943, in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, and raised on Fordham Road.

[5] In 1959, Malanga became a regular on Alan Freed's The Big Beat, televised on Channel 5 (WNEW) in New York City.

[6] By his senior year, Malanga was interested in becoming a poet, but he was also studying graphic design and advertising at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan.

[9] In 1963, Malanga was looking for a summer job when poet Charles Henri Ford introduced him pop artist Andy Warhol.

Ethel Scull 36 Times, Elvis Presley, Death and Disasters—we put out a lot of stuff, just the two of us," Malanga recalled.

In 1966, he choreographed a dance for Warhol's multimedia presentation, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, featuring musical performances by the Velvet Underground and Nico.

[citation needed] Malanga and Warhol collaborated on the nearly 500 individual 3-minute Screen Tests, which resulted in a selection for a book of the same name, published by Kulchur Press, in 1967.

[21] Malanga has photographed several poets and artists over the years including, Charles Olson, Iggy Pop, William Burroughs, and Herbert Gericke.

[21] In 1975, Malanga performed a reading of his poems and shown his film April Diary at the Sears Harkness Theater in Binghamton, New York.