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Finding Aid to the Lisa Kanemoto Photographs
(1977-1988)
SFP 144
SFP 144
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Title: Lisa Kanemoto Photographs
Date (inclusive): 1977-1988
Identifier/Call Number: SFP 144
Creator:
Kanemoto, Lisa
Physical Description:
2 flat boxes with 253 photographic prints
(1 Linear Feet)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: Collection of 253 black and white photographic prints of documentary photograph projects by Lisa Kanemoto in San Francisco,
California between 1977 and 1988. Projects include Chinatown and Japantown communities in San Francisco; students of Louise
M. Lombard Special Education School, San Francisco; East Indians in the Bay Area, and gay and lesbian portraits for the book
We Are.
Physical Location: The collection is stored on site.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English
.
The collection is available for use during Photo Desk hours.
All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the Photo Curator. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Lisa Kanemoto Photographs (SFP 144), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Gift of the photographer. 1998-50.
Complete Lisa Kanemoto Photograph Archive at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Elsbeth "Lisa" Kanemoto was born in Idar Oberstein, Germany in 1931. In 1958, Lisa married an American officer of Japanese
descent, George Kanemoto and they had three children. Kanemoto began studying photography in 1972 and took classes at City
College of San Francisco under Morrie Camhi. In the 1970s Kanemoto worked as a freelance photographer with regular contributions
of photographic essays to San Francisco Examiner California Living. In the late 1970s to the 1990s, Kanemoto had several solo
gallery shows around the San Francisco Bay Area. During that time two books were published: "We Are" and "Dark Mirror." Lisa
Kanemoto died on April 28, 2021 in San Diego, California.
Collection of 253 black and white photographic prints of documentary photograph projects by Lisa Kanemoto in San Francisco,
California between 1977 and 1988. Projects include Chinatown and Japantown communities in San Francisco; students of Louise
M. Lombard Special Education School, San Francisco; East Indians in the Bay Area, and gay and lesbian portraits for the book
We Are. Folder titles supplied by photographer.
Arranged by project and chronogically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Japanese Americans -- California -- San Francisco.
Gays -- Portraits
Lesbians -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Portraits.
Children -- Portraits.
Children with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco -- Portraits
East Indians -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Portraits
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Japantown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Photographic prints
Portraits
Group portraits
Photojournalism