Lynn Adler

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Documentary photographer and filmmaker Lynn Adler is a founder of Optic Nerve, a San Francisco–based film and photography collective, and Ideas in Motion. She has made community-based documentary films and videos around the world. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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Books by Lynn Adler

And So We Moved to Petaca

Portrait of a New Mexico Community

Introduction by Bill Shapiro / Photographer Lynn Adler

A sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano life in the tiny village of Petaca, New Mexico, in the early 1970s.

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