Lisa Law | |
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 Lisa Law, Madrid, New Mexico, 12 October 2013 | |
| Born | March 8, 1943 [2] |
| Spouse | Tom Law [1] |
| Children | Pilar Law [3] |
| Relatives | John Phillip Law [1] |
Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker of 1960s counterculture best known, with Peter Whiterabbit, for photographing the 1969 Woodstock festival, where she also organised food. [4] [5] [6] [7] She was also involved in the organisation of the Woodstock '99 festival. [8]
Lisa Bachelis was born to Selma (née Mikels), an attorney, and Lee Bachelis, a furrier. [9] She has two brothers, Gregory Frank and Guy [9] [2] and she grew up in Burbank, California. [10] [8] Bachelis attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, Galileo High School in San Francisco, California, the College of Marin in Marin County, California, and San Francisco City College. [9] [11] [12]
In Los Angeles in 1964, Bachelis became a personal assistant to Frank Werber, the manager of The Kingston Trio. He gave her a Honeywell Pentax camera [10] [13] [11] and she began taking pictures of the musicians in the Bay Area and Los Angeles music scenes.
In 1965, Bachelis met Tom Law, the road manager for Peter, Paul and Mary. [11] Law, his brother John Phillip Law, and their friend, Jack Simons, owned a four-story mansion in Los Feliz, known as the Castle. [11] [14] Bachelis and Law married the same year, and she moved into the mansion, where she took photographs of visiting musicians and artists, including Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan and Barry McGuire. [8] [11]
After living in Yelapa, Mexico, for a short time in 1966, Law chronicled the lives of the flower children in Haight Ashbury. [15] She carried her camera wherever she went, to the Human Be-In, the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco, the Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings of The Diggers. [8] [16] Law then joined those who migrated to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies. [17] She has gone on to specialize in documenting homeless people in San Francisco, the El Salvadorian's resistance against military oppression, and the Navajo and Hopi nations struggling to preserve their ancestral religious sites, traditions, and land.
She and her former husband, Tom Law, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico, for 12 years and had four children, including photographer Pilar Law. [17] They divorced in 1977. [3] [8]
Law moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been involved in the building of the El Museo de Historia, Arte y Cultura de Yelapa museum in Yelapa, Mexico. [15]
At the 1969 Woodstock festival, Law asked the festival organizers for $3,000 to buy rolled oats, bulgur wheat, wheat germ, dried apricots, currants, almonds, soy sauce, and honey to make muesli. [18] [19] Volunteers fed around 130,000 people with Dixie cups. [8] [18] [19] [20]
Law was also involved in organising the Woodstock '99 festival, and appears in the documentary series Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 where she talked about the difference between the two festivals. [8]
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed hippie culture, spiritual awakening, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war sentiment, and free love throughout the West Coast of the United States, and as far away as New York City. An episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience referred to the Summer of Love as "the largest migration of young people in the history of America".
A Hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and Chicago's Old Town community. The term hippie was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, although the tag was seen elsewhere earlier.
The Diggers were a radical community-action group of activists and street theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Their politics have been categorized as "left-wing;" more accurately, they were "community anarchists" who blended a desire for freedom with a consciousness of the community in which they lived. The Diggers' central tenet was to be "authentic," seeking to create a society free from the dictates of money and capitalism.
Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called The Haight and The Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles. Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as flower children. The term later became generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and the so-called counterculture of drugs, psychedelic music, psychedelic art and social permissiveness.
Granola is a food consisting of rolled oats, nuts, seeds, honey or other sweeteners such as brown sugar, and sometimes puffed rice, that is usually baked until crisp, toasted and golden brown. The mixture is stirred while baking to avoid burning and to maintain a loose breakfast cereal consistency. Dried fruit, such as raisins and dates, and confections such as chocolate are sometimes added. Granola is often eaten in combination with yogurt, honey, fresh fruit, milk or other forms of cereal. It also serves as a topping for various pastries, desserts or ice cream. Muesli is similar to granola, except that it is traditionally neither sweetened nor baked.
Chester Leo "Chet" Helms, often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 "Summer of Love," was a music promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s.
The Lower Haight is a neighborhood, sometimes referred to as Haight–Fillmore, in San Francisco, California.
American Front (AF) is a white supremacist organization founded in San Francisco, California by Bob Heick in 1984. It began as a loose organization modeled after the British National Front. Heick began working with Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in 1988.
The San Francisco sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district, during these years. San Francisco is a westward-looking port city, a city that at the time was 'big enough' but not manic like New York City or spread out like Los Angeles. Hence, it could support a 'scene'. According to journalist Ed Vulliamy, "A core of Haight Ashbury bands played with each other, for each other"
Ruth-Marion Baruch, was a German-born American photographer, remembered for her pictures of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s.
Allan Capron Houser or Haozous was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
William Victor Higgins was an American painter and teacher, born in Shelbyville, Indiana. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hayek. He was an associate of the National Academy of Design. Higgins moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1913 and joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1917. In 1923 he was on the founding board of the Harwood Foundation with Elizabeth (Lucy) Harwood and Bert Phillips.
Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist and author.
Pirkle Jones was an American documentary photographer and educator.
The Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. When first opened in October 1976, the store was located at 1746 Haight Street, below the former I-Beam nightclub. In 1985, the store moved to 1644 Haight Street at Belvedere, about a block and a half from the intersection of Haight and Ashbury. In 2021 the store moved down the street to 1727 Haight, the former site of its sister bookstore, the Bindery, now defunct.
Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".
Julie Kathleen Payne is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–1986, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores of TV animated shows, of which her best known character is that of Liz Wilson.
Jane Norling is a visual artist active in San Francisco Bay Area cultural venues since 1970. Her work addresses social & environmental justice and aesthetic concerns through public art, graphic design, painting, printmaking & small press publishing. She graduated from Bennington College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and began her career designing books at Random House before relocating to San Francisco in 1970.
Lisa Jo Bachelis was born on March 8, 1943 in Los Angeles County, California. Her father's last name is Bachelis, and her mother's maiden name is Mikels.
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