Quiet / Ilka Hartmann

C-Print. 8x10 inches. Printed in an edition of 30, with a numbered certificate signed by Ilka Hartmann. To help us celebrate our third printing of On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, we have had the fortunate opportunity to publish this beautiful and poignant photograph by Ilka Hartmann.  Taken by Hartmann in the rural town of Bolinas, CA in 1971, the photograph encapsulates a sensibility and way of life that was, and still is, protected in the town. The annonymous hand-painted sign, hanging in someone's yard, has been posted for all visitors to see, sharing the hearts of the people who live there: "QUIET / APPROACHING / SENSITIVE / COMMUNITY"    Ilka Hartmann was born in Hamburg, Germany during World War II and came to the Bay Area as a young woman in 1964. Soon she began to photograph most of the great social movements of the second part of the twentieth century in the United States, from the Anti-War Movement, to the Black Panther Party, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz I