Across the Great Divide

In 1969 Roberta Price took her camera in tow and checked out the communes that had sprung up in New Mexico and Colorado. Over the next nine years Price took over 3,000 photos, visiting four southwestern communes, and ultimately joined Libre in CO. There is nothing comparable in range, quality and quantity to this collection of photographs taken during the high tide of the hippie commune movement in the America Southwest. Living in domes, adobes, octagonal houses built from reject railroad ties, several hundred young pioneers tried to create an alternative, collective, and simpler way of living. This book documents the world they made, and is unique in its comprehensiveness and that it tells the story from the inside over an extended period of time.