Lisa Law

Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker best known, with Peter Whiterabbit for Woodstock's "Breakfast in Bed for 400,000"[3][4][5] muesli in Dixie cups and 1960s counterculture photographs.

Lisa Law
Lisa Law, Madrid, New Mexico,
12 October 2013
Born
Lisa Jo Bachelis[1][2]

(1943-03-08) March 8, 1943[2]
Los Angeles County, California[2]
SpouseTom Law[1]
RelativesJohn Phillip Law[1]

Early life

Lisa was born to Selma (née Mikels), an attorney, and Lee Bachelis, a furrier.[6] Her two brothers are Gregory Frank and Guy.[6][2] She grew up in Burbank, California.[7] Lisa attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, Galileo High School in San Francisco, California, College of Marin in Marin County, California, and San Francisco City College.[6][8][9]

Career

In 1965, Bachelis met Tom Law, road manager for Peter, Paul and Mary.[8] Tom Law, and his brother John Phillip Law, with a friend, Jack Simons, owned a four-story mansion, in Los Feliz, the Castle.[8][10] Bachelis moved in to the mansion.[8]

She became a personal assistant to Frank Werber, the manager of the Kingston Trio, who gave her a Honeywell Pentax camera.[11][8] 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 Haight Ashbury.[12] 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. 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 Truchas, New Mexico, for 12 years and had four children.

Woodstock

During Woodstock, Lisa Law asked the festival organizers for $3,000 to buy, in New York City, rolled oats, bulgur wheat, wheat germ, dried apricots, currants, almonds, soy sauce, and honey to make muesli.[13][14] Volunteers fed circa 130,000 people with Dixie cups.[14][13][15]

Works
  • Flashing on the Sixties, Squarebooks, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987[13]
  • 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[13]

CD cover photographs
  • Dezeo: Jewish Music From Spain by Consuelo Luz, Wagram Music, 2000

References
  1. "Lisa Law: The Castle". americanhistory.si.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  2. "Lisa Jo Bachelis, Born 03/08/1943 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved March 27, 2022. 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.
  3. Bramen, Lisa. "Woodstock—How to Feed 400,000 Hungry Hippies". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  4. Amlen, Deb (August 14, 2019). "'What We Have in Mind Is Breakfast in Bed for 400,000'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  5. "The Foodline - Woodstock and Granola". woodstockpreservation.org. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  6. "Law, Lisa, 1967". Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  7. "Lisa Law: Photographic Beginnings". americanhistory.si.edu. Archived from the original on July 15, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  8. "Nostalgic Flashback to the 1960s : Photographer's Candid Stills Chronicle Life as a Hippie". Los Angeles Times. December 17, 1987. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  9. Livingston, Joan (August 8, 2009). "Lisa Law: Documenting the Woodstock Generation in photos". The Taos News. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  10. "Lisa Law". Annenberg Space for Photography. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  11. "Lisa Law". sfae.com. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  12. "Lisa Law Built a Museum in Mexico". Santa Fe Reporter. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  13. "Flashing back to Woodstock". edition.cnn.com. August 17, 2004. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  14. "Lisa Law: Organizing Woodstock". americanhistory.si.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  15. "Woodstock at 50: Good-for-You Groovy In a Dixie Cup". Newberry Magazine. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
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