IRWIN KLEIN AND THE NEW SETTLERS

Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as grou ps in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found the se self-proclaimed New Settlersand many othersin the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captu red the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. His documentation of these counterculture communities has beco me well kno...[Read more]