Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art
Jacopetti, Alexandra. Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art. Scrimshaw Press, 1974 (2nd Printing, Revised). Softbound. Photos by Jerry Wainwright. Cover design by Georgia George. Additional design work by Dick Schuettge, Karen Petersen, and Frederick Mitchell. From its embroidered title spread to its costume profiles of Cockette players Scrumbly and Pristine Condition/Prissy Andrews to its examples of Jacopetti's own embroidery work (the vision for one piece, she says, 'came to her at orgasm'), this book is a fascinating document of peak hippie modernist San Francisco. The author helped organize the psychedelically formative Trips Festival and resided at northern California communes Morning Star and Sunshine Camp, where she completed this book. Legend has it photographer Wainwright spent time at San Quentin for making LSD and helped record Johnny Cash's 1969 performance there; whether accurate or not, his Naked Hippie Tarot, as well as his work for street-fashion pioneer Rags magazine, made a cultural mark in their own right.