Taylor Camp

John Wehrheim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2009
Serindia Publications, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-932476-46-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Features photographs from the Seventies that reveal a community that rejected consumerism for the healing power of Nature, while the story of Taylor Camp's seven-year existence is documented through interviews made thirty years later with the campers, their neighbours and the Kauai officials who finally evicted them. In 1969 Howard Taylor, brother of Elizabeth, bailed out a rag-tag band of thirteen young Mainlanders jailed on Kauai for vagrancy and invited them to camp on his oceanfront land. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to

Autor

Sent to Hawaii by the Sierra Club in 1969, John Wehrheim did a series of articles entitled "Paradise Lost" and never went back to the Mainland. He began photographing Taylor Camp in 1971; after 2 years living with both refugees and villagers in Asia, John began to seriously document this tree-house community, seeing it as both a traditional village and refugee settlement - a hippie refuges camp next to a crystalline stream in a tropical forest along a beach in Paradise Photographer, writer and filmmaker, John lives on Kauai with his wife and daughter. His most recent film is also called TAYLOR CAMP.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations, unspecified
• Verlagsort: Chicago
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 288 x 288 mm
• Gewicht: 2046 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-932476-46-6 / 1932476466
• ISBN-13: 978-1-932476-46-0 / 9781932476460
• Zustand: Neuware