Law, Lisa.

Born in 1943, Lisa Law grew up in Burbank, California in a middle class family consisting of her father, Lee Bachelis, a furrier, her mother, Selma Mikels, an attorney, and two brothers, Gregory Frank and Guy. After a year and half at John Burrows High School in Burbank, she attended Galileo High School in San Francisco, California for her last semester and a half of school. She spent her free time exploring the bohemian communities of North Beach and Sausalito, and eventually moved to Marin when she was 18. Her father shot documentaries of his trips to Mexico and the work he did organizing unions in the Los Angeles area, and gave Lisa her first camera, a Brownie, at the age of 8. She started documenting her life from that moment on. In 1964, Frank Weber gave her a professional camera and employed her as his personal assistant and asked her to photograph some of the folk groups that he managed: the Kingston Trio, We 5, and Sons of Champlin. She then attended College of Marin and San Francisco City College for two years where her majors were music and photography. She met her future husband, Tom Law, road manager for the folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, at a concert in Berkeley that both Frank and Lisa attended together.

In 1966, Lisa and Tom Law lived in "The Castle" in Los Angeles, owned by Tom and John Law and their friend Jack Simmons. Many creative individuals involved in the music, theater and arts scene rented rooms there, including Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Barry McGuire, Severn Darden, and many more came to visit. The music scene was very active at that time and Lisa aimed her camera at everything that turned her on. This is when she photographed Tim Hardin, Otis Redding, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Byrds, and the Dillards, to name a few.

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