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Just as increasing
numbers of people were coming to the communes looking for answers,
the Laws' final back-to-the-land experiment at Truchas, New Mexico,
was faltering. In 1976, Lisa Law moved to Santa Fe, where she
eventually made her living as a photographer.
The
counterculture
movement,
greeted
with
enormous
publicity
and
popular
interest,
contributed
to
changes
in
American
culture.
A
willingness
to
challenge
authority,
greater
social
tolerance,
the
sense
that
politics
is
personal,
environmental
awareness,
and
changes
in
attitudes
about
gender
roles,
marriage,
and
child
rearing
are
legacies
of
the
era.
Today
Lisa
Law
lives
by
the
Rio
Grande
in
northern
New
Mexico
in
a
solar-powered
house.
Her
tepee
is
pitched
beside
her
organic
garden.
Law
continues
to
use
her
camera
to
document
social
issues,
including
efforts
to
end
nuclear
arms
testing,
the
struggles
of
the
young
and
elderly
of
New
Mexico,
and
issues
of
Native
American
sovereignty.
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