Time: January 5, 2010 to January 16, 2010
Location: Serindia Gallery, OP Garden Bangkok
Street: Soi Charoenkrung 36
City/Town: Bangkok, Thailand
Website or Map: http://www.facebook.com/event…
Phone: +66 2238 6410
Event Type: photography, exhibition
Organized By: Serindia Gallery
Latest Activity: Jan 5, 2010
“IMPRESSIVE! The photos are a real time capsule of an era and a place — humane and atmospheric — and news to most people. I love the faces and bodies, and the theme of violated Eden, or After the Fall…” — PAUL THEROUX
>>>OPENING RECEPTION 15 DECEMBER 2009, 6:30pm. Meet John Wehrheim.
In 1969, Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out a rag-tag band of thirteen young Mainlanders jailed on Kauai (an island 90 miles northwest of Honolulu) 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.” Powerful photos from the seventies reveal a community that rejected consumerism for the healing power of nature while the story of Taylor Camp’s eight-year existence is documented through interviews made thirty years later with the campers, their neighbors and the Kauai officials who finally got rid of them.
Published and exhibited here for the first time more than thirty years later, John Wehrheim’s evocative black-and-white photos are a time capsule of the Woodstock Generation’s “back to the garden” dream. An important piece of American history beautifully captured on film.
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. He began photographing Taylor Camp in 1971; then in 1975, after two 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” refugee 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 JoAnn Yukimura and their daughter Maile. His most recent film is also titled TAYLOR CAMP.
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Taylor Camp by John Wehrheim, a new book, will be released during the exhibition. Beautifully illustrated with rich monochromatic photographs throughout. Includes fascinating stories and interviews of Taylor Camp residents, then and now. 28 x 28 cm, 258 pages, 108 illustrations, map Hardcover ISBN 978-193247646-0
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