Larry Keenan, Jr. papers, 1963-2009.

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Larry Keenan, Jr. papers, 1963-2009.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703890966

The Larry Keenan, Jr. Papers document Keenan's career as a photographer. Included in the collection are his correspondence with friends and colleagues, including Michael McClure and Bruce Conner; exhibition files, most notably for his shows of Beat era photographs held at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Archives of American Art in 1996; and copies of his commercial work.

2 cartons, 2 oversize folders (2.5 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8031359

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McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Keenan, Larry.

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Larry Keenan was a 1967 graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts. There he was a student of Michael McClure, who in 1965 invited him to take photographs of his circle of friends. This resulted in numerous opportunities to photograph major figures of the Beat scene over the course of more than a year. He continued photographing poets, artists and musicians of the San Francisco Bay Area counter culture while a high school photography teacher, 1967-1970. In 1970 he became a professiona...

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

City lights books

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City Lights Books, the first all paperback bookstore in the country, was started in San Francisco in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in partnership with Peter Martin. Situated in North Beach on Columbus Avenue, it quickly became the center for the beat poets and other experimental writers who figured strongly in the city's literary renaissance. From the description of City Lights Books records, 1953-1970. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227535655 ...