Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Fotografija
Autor: Strani

Taylor camp by John Wehrheim


Serindia Publications, 2009. godine na 258. strana, u tvrdom povezu sa zastitnim omotom.

Knjiga je veceg formata, bogato ilustrovana crno-belim fotografijama.



Monografija je nova.


Foto-monografija hipi komune na Havajima, koju je pokrenuo brat Elizabet Tejlor, Camp. Pored fotografija, u knjizi se nalaze i intervjui ljudi koji su bili clanovi komune.



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 Taylor Camp and built a clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village at the end of the road on the island`s North Shore. In 1977, after condemning the village to make way for a `State Park`, government officials torched the camp - leaving little but ashes and memories of the `best days of our lives`. Powerfully evocative photographs from the Seventies 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.



Sent to Hawai`i by the Sierra Club in 1969, John Wehrheim did a series of articles entitled `Paradise Lost` and then never went back to the mainland. In 1971 he began photographing Taylor Camp, a clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house community begun by Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth. Then in 1975, after two years living with both refugees and traditional villagers in Asia, John returned to Kauai and began to seriously document Taylor Camp, seeing it as both a traditional village and refugee settlement--`hippie` refugees from the straight world living next to a crystalline stream in a tropical forest along a beach in `paradise`. 30 year later John tracked down and interviewed these Taylor Camp residents, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them and created the book `TAYLOR CAMP`.