©
Lisa Law 2006
All photographs on this web site are protected
under United States and International copyright
laws.
These photographs may not be used, reproduced,
stored,
manipulated or copied in any way without the written
permission of Lisa
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Lisa Law
and
Lisa Law Productions
Over the past four decades Lisa Law's still, movie and video images
have chronicled the social and cultural changes in America,
from her film documentary of that vibrant '60s,
to her moving contemporary still photographs of the indigenous people
of
North, South, and Central America as they struggle for sovereignty and
survival.
Flashing On The Sixties-A Tribal Document
won 4 major awards at film festivals
upon it's release and it has been enjoyed by millions of viewers on
Cinemax and The Discovery Channel from 1991 to 1994.
Now you can buy it here on DVD.
Actor-director Dennis Hopper described Flashing On The Sixties as
"the most compelling, moving documentary of the Sixties".
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San FRancisco BE-IN'' © 2006 Lisa Law
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Lisa's book, of the
same title,
is now in its 4th edition, published by Square Books.
The book is a unique pictorial record of the Sixties,
reflecting Lisa's indefatigable search for memorable human images.
Her film documentation of "Woodstock"
has been used in more than
fifteen news and documentary presentations honoring the
twenty-fifth and thirtieth anniversaries of that historical event.
Her new book, Interviews with Icons,
Flashing On The Sixties
was released February 2000 by Lumen Press and has received sterling
reviews.
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'Lisa
& Pilar at New Buffalo Commune © 2006 Lisa
Law
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Lisa's
career as a photographer began in the early sixties.
With a new Honeywell Pentax camera in hand
and working as an assistant
to a manager in the rock and roll scene she began taking pictures.
Whether she was backstage with The Beatles,
Peter, Paul and Mary,
The Kingston Trio, Otis Redding, The Lovin Spoonful, The Velvet Underground,
The Byrds, taking promotional photographs of Janis
Joplin and Big Brother,
or at home making dinner for house guests like Bob
Dylan or Andy Warhol
or helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog
Farm Commune,
her passion for photography grew into a profession as she sported
her new Nikon F.
In the mid-Sixties she lived with the "Mushroom" people
of Huautla, Oaxaca, Mexico, capturing the essence of this endangered
culture.
Moving to San Francisco in 1967,
she chronicled the life of the flower children in Haight Ashbury.
She carried her camera wherever she went,
to
the 1967 Human Be-In and the anti-Vietnam
march
in San Francisco, the Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings of the Diggers.
She then joined those who migrated to the communes
of New Mexico
in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
Wavy Gravy, and Ram Dass use
her photographs consistently today.
Since that time, Lisa 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 Salvadorians resistance against military oppression,
and the Navajo and Hopi nations struggling to preserve
their ancestral religious sites, traditions and land.
She uses her camera as a powerful weapon to champion the rights of
indigenous nations,
bringing to a wide audience riveting insights into their cultures
just as she did during the social revolution of the Sixties.
As a photographer/documentarian, Lisa's perspective is rare and unique.
From the reservations of Arizona and New Mexico to the Mansions of
Beverly Hills
she is welcomed as a friend and participant thus allowing her images
to reflect a sense intimacy and spontaneity that is rarely seen by
"outsiders".
Lisa lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and keeps a house she helped design
and build,
overlooking the Sangre de Cristos and the Rio Grande River,
off the grid, where she hopes to retire someday.
(From-Interviews and Reviews-FlashingOntheSixties
.com
© Lisa Law 2006
All photographs on this web site are protected under United States
and International copyright laws.
These photographs may not be used, reproduced, stored,
manipulated or copied in any way without the written permission of
LISA LAW
See More of
Lisa's work in these parts of our site:
Janis Joplin Tribute
Communes-Past and Present
Bob Dylan Music Store
The Beatles Music Store
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60s Photojournalist
Gallery
Poster's
and Art Prints, T-shirt Galleries
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