Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker of 1960s counterculture best known, with Peter Whiterabbit, for photographing the 1969 Woodstock festival, where she organised food.
10 Facts About Lisa Law
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Lisa Law was involved in the organisation of the Woodstock '99 festival.
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Lisa Law has two brothers, Gregory Frank and Guy and she grew up in Burbank, California.
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Lisa Law gave her a Honeywell Pentax camera and she began taking pictures of the musicians in the Bay Area and Los Angeles music scenes.
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Bachelis and Lisa 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.
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Lisa Law then joined those who migrated to the communes of New Mexico in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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Lisa Law 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.
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Lisa Law has been involved in the building of the El Museo de Historia, Arte y Cultura de Yelapa museum in Yelapa, Mexico.
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At the 1969 Woodstock festival, Lisa Law asked the festival organizers for $3,000 to buy rolled oats, bulgur wheat, wheat germ, dried apricots, currants, almonds, soy sauce, and honey to make muesli.
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Lisa Law was 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.