Irwin Klein and the New Settlers (eBook, PDF)

Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico
Redaktion: Klein, Benjamin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers¿and many others¿in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the counterculture's transition to a social movement. His documentation of these counterculture communities has become well known and sought after for both its sheer beauty and as a primary source about a largely undocumented group.By blending Klein's unpublished work with essays by modern scholars, Benjamin Klein (Irwin's nephew) creates an important contribution to the literature of the counterculture and especially the 1960s. Supporting essays emphasize the importance of a visual record for interpreting this lifestyle in the American Southwest. Irwin Klein and the...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803285873
• Artikelnr.: 45103469

Autorenporträt

The work of Irwin Klein (1933-74) is archived in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives in Santa Fe. Benjamin Klein, Irwin's nephew, teaches European and world history at California State University, East Bay. His articles on the counterculture have appeared in the New Mexico Historical Review and Casa Vogue. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Photographs
Foreword
Daniel Kosharek
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael William Doyle
From Innocence to Experience: Irwin B. Klein and the New Settlers of
Northern New Mexico
Benjamin Klein and Tim Hodgdon
The Great Hippie Invasion
Lois Rudnick
El Rito and the Power of Place in Sixties America
David Farber and Benjamin Klein
The New Settlers of New Mexico Photographs, 1967–1971
1. The Valley—Settlement
2. Independence Day Celebration—The Hog Farm
3. The Village Settlement
4. Five Star Commune
5. Light & Dark
6. The Hills
7. The Farm
8. Visits
9. Wedding Celebration New Buffalo Commune
Afterword
Tom Fels
Notes
Contributors