An Exclusive Interview With ALICE S. KANDELL
Lens Magazine|July 2020
SIKKIM The Lost Kingdom
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An Exclusive Interview With ALICE S. KANDELL
Alice Kandell first visited the ancient kingdom of Sikkim (now part of India) in 1963 to attend the coronation of her best friend, Hope Cooke (married the Sikkimese King). Alice fell in love with the culture, people, and the art. At the request of the King, Alice produced two books of photographs on the life and art of the kingdom.

Beyond her photographs, Alice has amassed one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist art and artifact collections in the world. Her collection has been documented in two photography books, A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection and Assembly Of The Exalted. A portion of her collection is now housed at The Smithsonian.

Alice S. Kandell is an American child psychologist, author, photographer and art collector interested in Himalayan culture.

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.

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