Lisa Law

Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker best known for her photographic chronicles of the counterculture era. Law is also the author of the book and documentary film Flashing on the Sixties.[1]

Lisa Law, 2013

Biography

Law's career as a photographer began in the early sixties. She landed a job as an assistant to the manager of the Kingston Trio, Frank Werber, who gave her a used Honeywell Pentax camera. She began taking pictures of the musicians in the thriving music scene in the Bay Area and Los Angeles

After living in Yelapa, Mexico for a short time in 1966, Law chronicled the life of the flower children in Haight Ashbury. She carried her camera wherever she went, to the Human Be-In and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco, Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings of The Diggers. Law then joined those who migrated to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies. She and her former husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children.

Since that time, Lisa Law has specialized in documenting history as she has experienced it. As a mother, writer, photographer and social activist, her work reveals distinctive communities of people, including the homeless of San Francisco, the El Salvadorian's resistance against military oppression, the Navajo and Hopi nations struggling to preserve their ancestral religious sites, traditions and land.

Work

Books
  • Flashing on the Sixties, Squarebooks, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987
  • Interviews with Icons: Flashing on the Sixties, Lumen Books, Santa Fe New Mexico, 2000

Books that include Law's photographs
  • Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970, Barney Hoskins, Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997

Documentaries
  • Flashing on the Sixties: A tribal document by Lisa Law, Flashback Productions Ltd. 1994

Covers

DVD cover photograph

  • Flashing on the Sixties: A tribal document by Lisa Law, Flashback Productions Ltd. 1994

CD cover photographs

  • Dezeo: Jewish Music From Spain by Consuelo Luz, Wagram Music, 2000
gollark: The newer bots are assigned moderation roles.
gollark: “As brand leader, my bandwidth is jammed with analysing flow-through and offering holistic solutions.” - GTech™ corporate management AI.
gollark: <@398575402865393665> is highly coolThose who dislike it have type Bool.
gollark: There is not.
gollark: Beware the beeFor GTech™️ will deploy apioforms, inevitablyYou cannot hide beneath a treeApioforms will track any escapeeThey do not respect caller IDApioforms control the capital of TenneseeThus none are safe to an adequate degreeChronoapioforms control realityApiothalassahazards monitor the seaFrom an apioform none can fleeDue to their use of multispectral imaging in order to seeApiointellectuoforms have a PhDAnd kiloapioecoekaorganohazards [DATA EXPUNGED] Holy See

References
  1. Flashing back to Woodstock
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.