FAMILY: The Source Family Scrapbook: An Intimate, Unmediated View Into California's Most Iconic Utopian Commune - Hardcover

Isis Aquarian; Jodi Willie; Charlie Kitchings

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099960998X ISBN 13: 9780999609989

Publisher: Sacred Bones Books / Otherworld, 2022

Synopsis

FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an intimate view into the world of California’s legendary utopian community, The Source Family. This immersive document is a facsimile of original scrapbooks assembled by Source Family member and historian Isis Aquarian between 1972-1977. Vivid life-size reproductions are presented here as they were originally laid onto the page, edited only for flow. These richly textured documents illuminate the group’s public adventures and private world through hundreds of never-before-seen photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, and flyers, mapping an intimate, epic history of the group’s incandescent rise and eventual unraveling. Includes extensive captions by the authors and an essay by Jodi Wille.

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About the Author

Isis Aquarian is the Source Family’s archivist. As one of Father’s 14 wives, she photographed and filmed Father and the Source Family, recorded audio, maintained scrapbooks, and helped manage the Family business. Since the release of The Source Family docu mentary and her award - winning memoir, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family, she has produced a record “Isis: The Crone” (distributed through Drag City), supervised the release of other Source Family music through Dr ag City, created a Source Family comic book and her own tee shirt line. She has written for and appeared topless in Flaunt Magazine. She is co - founder and Vice - President of the Source Foundation. Isis is associate producer of The Source Family documentary. She has spoken at the International Intentional Communal Conference Association. Isis resides in Kailua, Hawaii and is 73 years old. She has a daughter, Saturna, and a granddaughter. Jodi Wille is a filmmaker, book editor, and curator known for her work exploring American subcultures. She is director of the feature documentary The Source Family. She is Co - Founder and Editor of book publishing companies Media and Dilettante Press. She has edited and published a number of award - winning bo oks including The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWha 13, and The Source Family; Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!; Pure Country: The Leon Kagarise Archives 1961 - 1971; and Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan, by amateur photographer Gary Lee Boas. She has curated numerous museum and gallery exhibitions related to her book and film projects in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Portland, and London. Charlie Kitchings is an independent curator and art advisor. He founde d AMBACH & RICE in 2009 and organized over fifty exhibits during the gallery’s six - year tenure in Seattle and Los Angeles. The gallery and its artists received extensive media coverage in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Art Forum, Art Review. and the New York Times. AMBACH & RICE participated in international art fairs in Berlin, Chicago, Cologne, Miami and New York and successfully placed artists’ works in prestigious private and public collections. Charlie is currently a partner in record ma nufacturing company SunPress Vinyl.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sacred Bones Books / Otherworld
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 099960998X
• ISBN 13: 9780999609989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Wille Jodi