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Kandel, Lenore [Photographs from the Lenore Kandel papers].
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[Photographs from the Lenore Kandel papers]Creator/Contributor:
Kandel, Lenore, creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly snapshots of Kandel in the 1960s. Includes one childhood photograph; a snapshot album depicting Kandel, perhaps at
the home of her parents, who are presumably the others depicted; miscellaneous snapshot and professional photographs depicting
Kandel, including a series of photobooth portraits and one of her posing in belly dancing attire; a set of three professional
photographs taken in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park on the summer solstice of 1968, showing Kandel, two belly dancers,
a nurse and a young man on a motorcycle; two contact sheets of snapshots depicting Kandel and others in various locations;
and a color print of a Hindu goddess. Also includes an oversize photograph taken in 1966 by Jaime Balugo depicting Kandel
and Michael McClure seated in front of a microphone during an unidentified event; written on walls in background are names
of authors whose work was subjected to censorship (Allen Ginsberg, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, et al).
Date:
1940 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAuthors, American -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century -- Photographs
Écrivains américains -- Californie -- San Francisco -- 20e siècle -- Photographies
Authors, American
California -- San Francisco
Kandel, Lenore -- Archives
Kandel, Lenore -- Photographs
Kandel, Lenore
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Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Kandel.
Transferred from the Lenore Kandel papers (BANC MSS 2017/141).
Purchase ; From Andover Street Archives, on behalf of Vicki Pollack and Roslyn Rosen ; 2016.
Born in New York City in 1932; for some time lived in Los Angeles area before moving to San Francisco in 1960 with aspirations
of joining the Beat movement; fictionalized by Jack Kerouac as character Romana Swartz in his novel Big Sur; died in San Francisco
in 2009. Kandel gained notoriety in November of 1966 when her pamphlet of erotic poems, The love book, was seized by San Francisco
Police Department, prosecuted for its sexual content and judged to be in violation of California obscenity laws. The state's
decision was eventually overturned by a federal court in 1974. Was a featured speaker at Pow wow: a gathering of the tribes
for a human be-in, held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, coincidentally her birthday. Works include
An exquisite navel (1958), A passing dragon (1959), A passing dragon seen again (1959), Vision of the skull of the prophet
(1964), The love book (1966), Word alchemy (1967) and the posthumous Collected poems (2014).
Photographs from the Lenore Kandel papers, BANC PIC 2017.044, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
23 photographs in 8 folders and 1 oversize folder : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets 41 x 51 cm or smaller
Language:
English