"Flashing On The Sixties" - The Photography Of LIsa Law
July 03, 2009 , 06:00 PM - September 03, 2009, 10:00 PM
Flashing On The Sixties: The Photography of Lisa Law
(Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Morrison Hotel Gallery Page | FlashingOnTheSixties.com
Over the past four decades, Lisa Law’s still and moving images have chronicled the social and cultural changes in America.
Her career as a photographer began in the early Sixties, working as an assistant to a manager in the folk and rock and roll scene. Whether backstage with The Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Otis Redding, Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Lovin’ Spoonful, taking promotional photos of Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company, or at home at The Castle making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan or Barry McGuire or helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog Farm Commune, her passion for photography grew into a profession.
While in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1967 she chronicled the life of the flower children in the Haight Ashbury. She carried her camera wherever she went: from the Human Be-In and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco to the Monterey Pop Festival and then to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
Her book, ‘Flashing on the Sixties’, is now in its 4th edition. The book is a unique pictorial record of the Sixties, a testament to Lisa’s indefatigable search for memorable human images. Lisa’s second book, ‘Interviews with Icons, Flashing On The Sixties’ includes her interviews from her video of the same name, which has won 4 major awards at film festivals.
Lisa specializes in documenting history as she experiences it. As a mother, writer, photographer, director and social activist, her work reveals distinctive communities of people in the US and Latin America. Her perspective is rare and unique, offering a sense of intimacy and spontaneity rarely seen by “outsiders”. Visit www.flashingonthesixties.com
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