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New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community

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In this lavishly-illustrated (nearly 300 photos, many never before published) 1975 book, Paul Kagan tells the story (along with a very helpful and insightful text accompanying the photos) of communities such as Fountaingrove, Icaria, Kaweah Co-Operative Commonwealth, Pisgah Grande, Llano del Rio, Point Loma (the Theosophical community), Riker's "Holy City," and even the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

Kagan notes, "Much of the life, and much of the story, is in the photographs. The photographs that I made represent my feelings about the communal remains, and the historical photographs show a little of the daily life of the groups. The accompanying text tells the communal history and, hopefully, raises some pertinent questions."

This fascinating book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for anyone interested in these communities, intentional communities, utopian societies, communes, or similar experiments in living.