Photographs by Roberta Price are in Alastair Gordon's Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties (Rizzoli 2008). Some of her photographs will be featured in Issue 24 of Volume, an academic journal
Shows of some of Roberta Price's Across the Great Divide photographs in 2011:
Review of Across the Great Divide from Huffington Post:
Roberta Price, whether she meant to or not, compiled one of the great photographic documentations of the American hippie lifestyle in the late 1960s and '70s. Resident of and frequent visitor to the communes that sprouted amongst the edenic (if hardly forgiving) mountains and valleys of Colorado and New Mexico, Price regarded her fellow ruralists as friends and family and co-conspirators, but shot them also with the analytical eye of an anthropologist. In other words, these are no mere snapshots of a remarkable era, they are detailed records of a movement and even a method. As such, "Across the Great Divide," Price's photo-journey through the Rocky Mountain high, provides resonant backdrop to the efforts at communal structure, post-capitalist economy, and do-it-yourself ethics - all formulated in the guise or name of art - assembled downstairs as "Worlds Outside This One." If Price's show looks at time and place, "Worlds," bringing together quasi-practical stabs at idealism from around the globe, looks at timelessness and placelessness - the world as commune.- Peter Frank
The State Fair Portrait Project
Price is involved as a photographer and board member of the State Fair Portrait Project, a non-profit corporation devoted to photographing New Mexicans at the annual State Fair and other events. In fall 2009, volunteer photographers took over a thousand shots of five hundred subjects at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque. The SFPP images will be used for publicity for the State Fair, a limited edition set of posters, a show, and a book of some of those portraits.
