Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker best known, with Peter Whiterabbit for

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's "Breakfast in Bed for 400,000"

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s and 1960s counterculture photographs.

Early life

Lisa was born to Selma (née Mikels), an attorney, and Lee Bachelis, a furrier. Her two brothers are Gregory Frank and Guy. She grew up in Burbank, California. Lisa attended

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in Burbank,

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, California,

College of Marin The College of Marin is a public community college in Marin County, California, with two campuses, one in Kentfield, and the second in Novato. It is the only institution operated by the Marin Community College District. College of Marin has bee ...

in Marin County, California and

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Career

In 1965, Bachelis met Tom Law, road manager for

Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio consisted of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Paul Stookey, and contralto Mary Travers. The group's reper ...

. Tom Law, and his brother

John Phillip Law John Phillip Law (September 7, 1937 – May 13, 2008) was an American film actor. Following a breakthrough role as a Russian sailor in ''The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming'' (1966), Law became best known for his roles as gu ...

, with a friend, Jack Simons, owned a four-story mansion, in

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, ''the Castle''. Bachelis moved in to the mansion. She became a personal assistant to Frank Werber, the manager of the

Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, ...

, who gave her a

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Pentax camera. She began taking pictures of the musicians in the Bay Area and Los Angeles music scenes. After living in Yelapa, Mexico for a short time in 1966, Law chronicled the life of the flower children in

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. She carried her camera wherever she went, to the

Human Be-In The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture a ...

and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco,

Monterey Pop Festival The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix ...

, and meetings of The Diggers. Law then joined those who migrated to the communes of

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in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Since that time, Lisa Law has specialized in documenting 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. 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

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for 12 years and had four children.

Woodstock

During

, Lisa Law asked the festival organizers for $3,000 to buy, in

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, dried apricots, currants, almonds, soy sauce, and

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to make

. Volunteers fed circa 130,000 people with

Works

*''Flashing on the Sixties'', Squarebooks, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987 * ''Interviews with Icons: Flashing on the Sixties'', Lumen Books, Santa Fe New Mexico, 2000 * ''Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965–1970'', Barney Hoskins, Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997

Film

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

CD cover photographs

* ''Dezeo: Jewish Music From Spain'' by

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, Wagram Music, 2000

References

External links

A Visual Journey – Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

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