Paul Kagan

Kagan exhibited his photographs at Stanford University in 1966 He worked with Family Dog, a production company in San Francisco run by Chet Helms, which organized concerts. In 1966 Kagan photographed Country Joe and the Fish, and the images were used on four covers for albums released in 1967. == New World Utopias ==

Around 1970 Kagan began to research and photograph California Utopian communities. This work was supported first by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and then by the California Historical Society. Following five years of research, and includes photographs Kagan took when he visited sites of current and former communities. An exhibition of these photographs was mounted at the Oakland Museum in 1975. By the late 1970s he was working as a photographer with a San Francisco advertising agency, Dailey & Associates, where he won trade group awards for several advertisements featuring his photographs. Kagan died in New York City in 1993. ==References==