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.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
AngelesAfter 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.
photographic chronicles of the counterculture era. Law is also the
author of the book and documentary film Flashing on the Sixties.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
AngelesAfter 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.
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