Keenan, Larry. Larry Keenan, Jr. photograph archive [graphic].
Title:
Larry Keenan, Jr. photograph archive [graphic]. ca. 1965-2009.
The Larry Keenan, Jr. archive is most notable for its documentation of the counter-culture of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and early 1970s. Youth and popular culture (rock music), the arts (literary and visual arts), and prominent figures of beat and hippie culture are pictured in portraits and candid views taken at events. Literary figures and artists (chiefly associated with the beat generation) include Neal Cassady, Bruce Conner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Gooch, Dave Haselwood, Ken Kesey, Robert LaVigne, Michael McClure, Free Wheelin' Frank (of the Hell's Angels), Julius and Peter Orlovsky, and Philip Whalen. Among the rock stars pictured are Marty Balin and Grace Slick (of the Jefferson Airplane), Micky Dolenz (of the Monkees), Bob Dylan, Cass Elliott (of the Mamas and the Papas), Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead), Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones), Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe and the Fish), and Robbie Robertson (of The Band). Photographs of Candice Bergen (at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967), Jerry Rubin, and Timothy Leary are also present. Events and places pictured include City Lights Books, the Human Be-In (Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1967), a San Francisco peace march, the Haight-Ashbury (1966-1967), the Spring Mobilization peace march (1967), a Public Smoke-In (UC Berkeley campus), a San Francisco Gay Pride parade and Mr. Acme contest (ca. 1975), and the Monterey Pop Festival (1967). Also present in the archive is work Keenan produced for commercial assignments and for photographic book projects. These book projects, undertaken from 1966 through 1970, are "Birds", untitled, "Sundance", "Europe: east/west", and "Renaissance: roots and reaction". Other creative works present in the collection are t-shirt designs by Keenan (and by others), and his "laminations", "postvisualizations", and "xerography".
ArchivalResource:
30 boxes, 11 cartons and 8 oversize folders (ca. 2,000 photographic prints, posters and other prints) : color and b&w ; various sizes.
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