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Across the Great Divide by Roberta Price

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Roberta Price

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1967

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Roberta Price: Across The Great Divide

“In 1969, Roberta Price headed west with a camera to document the newly forming communes in New Mexico and Colorado. As Roberta describes, “The more the Vietnam War got worse and the protests got worse, the more we kept thinking about the West and the freedom of the West and the ability to experiment in the West.” Traveling on a fellowship from State University of New York, at the age of 22, she and her partner at the time, David Perkins, visited communes including Drop City, New Buffalo, and Reality Construction Company. The two eventually ended up moving to Libre, a commune in the Huerfano Valley of Colorado, where they lived for seven years. At the time there was concern about how these communities were being portrayed by the media. Although major news reporters were kept away from the communes, Roberta and David were let into a lot of places – many of which they found through the Whole Earth Catalog and word of mouth. Roberta decided not to publish her photographs at the time, because of her concern that too much exposure could have negative impacts on the commune movement. Instead she chose to leave her life back East, build a home at Libre, and continue taking photographs.

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Roberta Price- Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture

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