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OverviewDropouts, 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 By blending Klein’s unpublished work with essays by modern scholars, Benjamin Klein (Irwin’s nephew) creates an important contribution to the literature of the counterculture and especially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 New Settlers reinforces the photographer’s reputation as an astute observer of back-to-the-land, modern-day Emersonians whose communes represented contemporary Waldens. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin KleinPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: Bison Books Dimensions: Width: 27.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.402kg ISBN: 9780803285101ISBN 10: 0803285108 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 June 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of PhotographsForewordDaniel KosharekPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael William DoyleFrom Innocence to Experience: Irwin B. Klein and the New Settlers of Northern New MexicoBenjamin Klein and Tim HodgdonThe Great Hippie InvasionLois RudnickEl Rito and the Power of Place in Sixties AmericaDavid Farber and Benjamin KleinThe New Settlers of New Mexico Photographs, 1967–19711. The Valley—Settlement2. Independence Day Celebration—The Hog Farm3. The Village Settlement4. Five Star Commune5. Light & Dark6. The Hills7. The Farm8. Visits9. Wedding Celebration New Buffalo CommuneAfterwordTom FelsNotesContributorsReviews[This book] reveals Irwin Klein as a perceptive interpreter of the countercultural movement as it played out in northern New Mexico in the late 1960s. Klein s photographs of the New Settlers, which he referred to as part family album . . . complement his grittier, darker New York City photos taken at roughly the same time, showing Klein to be an unheralded chronicler of American life. Stephen C. Pinson, curator, Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art--Stephen C. Pinson (09/14/2015) Irwin Klein s photographs masterfully illuminate facets of life in northern New Mexico s countercultural communes of the 1960s and 1970s. They capture the hippies celebration of life and love and their rejection of convention and materialism, as well as their progression from fanciful dreaming to the realities of subsistence farming in a starkly beautiful but unforgiving, hardscrabble setting. The accompanying interpretive essays enhance the value of the photographs by offering historical, cultural, and artistic insights. Brian Cannon, director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies--Brian Cannon (09/14/2015) This is an evocative photo essay of the early counterculture in New Mexico. Excellent images that are enlightening. -John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War and If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir -- John Nichols [This book] reveals Irwin Klein as a perceptive interpreter of the countercultural movement as it played out in northern New Mexico in the late 1960s. Klein's photographs of the New Settlers, which he referred to as 'part family album' ... complement his grittier, darker New York City photos taken at roughly the same time, showing Klein to be an unheralded chronicler of American life. -Stephen C. Pinson, curator, Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Stephen C. Pinson Visually stunning... Given the rarity and beauty of its photographs and its lively and accessible commentary, this work will be of value to sixties and communal studies scholars, regional and visual historians, archivists, photography enthusiasts, and anyone with a rebel's heart. -Gretchen Lemke, author of Daughters of Aquarius -- Gretchen Lemke A bevy of telling black-and-white images that provides the viewer with the opportunity to almost become the settler's neighbor or the proverbial fly on the wall... A worthy, elegant body of work emerges. -Robert Altman, former chief staff photographer for Rolling Stone and author of The Sixties -- Robert Altman No one captured the spirit and essence of the '60s southwest American communes better than Irwin Klein. With a Leica, black-and-white film, and natural lighting, he created an authentic artistic record of this unique and short-lived period of back-to-the-land '60s idealism. -Lloyd Kahn, editor of Shelter Publications, Inc. -- Lloyd Kahn Irwin Klein's photographs masterfully illuminate facets of life in northern New Mexico's countercultural communes of the 1960s and 1970s. They capture the hippies' celebration of life and love and their rejection of convention and materialism, as well as their progression from fanciful dreaming to the realities of subsistence farming in a starkly beautiful but unforgiving, hardscrabble setting. The accompanying interpretive essays enhance the value of the photographs by offering historical, cultural, and artistic insights. -Brian Cannon, director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies -- Brian Cannon Author InformationThe 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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