Alice S. Kandell is an American child psychologist, author, photographer and art collector interested in Himalayan culture.[1] She worked extensively in the Indian state of Sikkim as a photographer, capturing approximately 15,000 color slides, as well as black-and-white photographs, between 1965 and 1979.[2]
Life and career
editKandell graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1960. She intended on visiting Tibet after her friend Hope Cooke encouraged her but her parents declined.[3] She initially visited Sikkim in 1965 to attend the coronation ceremony of Hope Cooke, an American woman who married Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim. At his request, she started a photograph project to illustrate how he and his wife favoured education and local businesses in Sikkim to benefit its culture.[4]
She is the author or co-author of two books,[5] (with text by Charlotte Salisbury), and a book for children, called Sikkim: The Hidden Kingdom.
Her private collection of Tibetan art was covered in A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection of Tibetan Sacred Art, by Marylin Rhie and Robert Thurman, with photographs by John Bigelow Taylor.
In 2011, she donated a collection of Tibetan art to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian,[6][7] and about 300 pictures to the Library of Congress.
She is the daughter of Leonard S. Kandell, a developer and investor in Manhattan real estate.[8]
Gallery
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Alice Kandell behind a Sikkimese soldier taking a photograph of a Chinese soldier along the Nathu La Pass, Sikkim -
Alice Kandell with villager and horse, Sikkim
Images taken by Alice S. Kandell
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Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim -
Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim -
Woman selling rice in Gangtok market, Sikkim -
The 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, religious leader of Sikkim -
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, seated, with a monk, at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim in 1965. -
Coronation of King in April 1965. Three Nepalese women standing in front of Tse Ten Tashi's photograph studio, Gangtok, Sikkim. -
Coronation of King in April 1965. Princess, sister of the King of Sikkim, standing on right, in traditional royal dress, during coronation of King, Gangtok, Sikkim. -
Young girl, Kimu, carrying a birthday cake through the Lachung Monastery, Sikkim February 1969.
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Collection of Tibetan art
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Amitabha in Sukhavati Pure Land -
Hva Shang, and Lokapalas Virudhaka and Dhrtarashta -
Bhaishajya Guru -
Dharmatala, and Lokapalas Virupaksha and Vaishravana -
Shakyamuni Descending from the Heaven of the 33 Gods -
Padma Sambhava -
Shadakshari Avalokiteshvara
References
edit- ^ "Alice S. Kandell". Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
- ^ "Sikkim Photos (Kandell Collection): Biography of the Photographer". Library of Congress. 1965. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/magazine/global-citizen/alumni/way-of-life.html
- ^ Dahlia Ambrose, American Photographer Takes You Through A Cultural Tour of the Lost Kingdom of Sikkim, December 28, 2016
- ^ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21182514?selectedversion=NBD13588912>Mountaintop Kingdom: Sikkim
- ^ "Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Receives Leading Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Art from Alice S. Kandell". Smithsonian Website. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ http://www.artsatl.com/tag/alice-s-kandell/>Doorway to an Enlightened World
- ^ "Leonard S. Kandell - Developer, 85". The New York Times. 1991-05-13. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
