Lisa Law

Early life Lisa Bachelis was born to Selma (née Mikels), an attorney, and Lee Bachelis, a furrier.

Career 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 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. 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. 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. Law then joined those who migrated to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies. 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.

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.

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 Consuelo Luz, Wagram Music, 2000