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[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/slab-city-california-drifter-community-photography-matt-stuart-into-the-fire-a9628026.html by Eve Watling 27/7/20 INDEPENDENT] | [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/slab-city-california-drifter-community-photography-matt-stuart-into-the-fire-a9628026.html by Eve Watling 27/7/20 INDEPENDENT] | ||
British photographer Matt Stuart spent five months in Slab City, a ramshackle California desert community. His new book, ‘Into the Fire’, is an intimate portrait of life lived in ‘the last free place in America’ | British photographer Matt Stuart spent five months in Slab City, a ramshackle California desert community. His new book, ‘Into the Fire’, is an intimate portrait of life lived in ‘the last free place in America’ | ||
=====Will Salvation Mountain find its savior? The quest to save the desert folk-art landmark===== | |||
[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-salvation-mountain-20170129-story.html by Chris Iovenko 27/1/17 Los Angeles Times] | |||
People call it a mountain, but it’s just 150 feet across and five stories tall, jutting skyward like a candy-colored, Jesus-inspired hallucination brought to life on the subdued pastel palette of the desert. Created in a sustained fever dream by the self-taught artist Leonard Knight over nearly three decades, Salvation Mountain rose as a monument to individual fortitude and artistic. | |||
