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    Stoner to Seeker: the Photographs Ii: Volume Ii: India Traveling on the 1970S Indian Hippie Trail Hippie Ki Yay!
    Stoner to Seeker: the Photographs Ii: Volume Ii: India Traveling on the 1970S Indian Hippie Trail Hippie Ki Yay!
    Stoner to Seeker: the Photographs Ii: Volume Ii: India Traveling on the 1970S Indian Hippie Trail Hippie Ki Yay!
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    Stoner to Seeker: the Photographs Ii: Volume Ii: India Traveling on the 1970S Indian Hippie Trail Hippie Ki Yay!

    By Gordon Schwerzmann

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    “STONER TO SEEKER: PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIA”
    India is the pot of gold at the end of the hippie rainbow Here you can lose or find yourself. You have absolute freedom: you can be transformed into a new spiritual being or be transfixed into a drooling, nodding off junkie.

    “Stoner To Seeker: The India Photographs” chronicles Indian life in the 1970s. I spent a year and a half traveling all over the Indian subcontinent recording lives, hopes, dreams, and sorrows. India is the most fascinating country in the world where religion, western consumer culture, communism and a traditional way of life are all competing for the soul of India.

    I was “a stranger in a strange land” and I tried to record that exoticism and awe in my photographs and with written words in my companion Journal.

    I arrived in India as a stoned freak (hippie-ki-yay) and through my experiences of interacting with students, merchants, intellectuals, sahhus and fellow freaks became a siddhartha, exploring religions, philosophies, and other worldliness approaches to life’s goals.

    This is my vision of India, a bright multi-colored prism of light as seen through a lens darkly.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 27, 2023
    ISBN9781669867296
    Stoner to Seeker: the Photographs Ii: Volume Ii: India Traveling on the 1970S Indian Hippie Trail Hippie Ki Yay!
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    Gordon Schwerzmann

    I am a first generation American, born of immigrant Norwegian and Swiss parents. I was the first in my family to attend college (Lafayette College) and a second-generation soldier (my father served in the U.S. Army during World War II). I grew up in the 1960s, the High Noon of the American Empire and see myself as a child of both Woodstock and Vietnam. The patriotic idealism of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy years dissipated in the societal division and carnage of a senseless war. Yet my generation believed that everything was possible, we could remake America to be that visionary “Shining City on the Hill “our forefathers had envisioned. It is this optimism that inspired my book. It is also my photographic “Bildungsroman”, a young man trying to understand the world and himself. I have an insatiable sense of curiosity and wonder about the world and this Zeitgeist is what I strive to convey in my photographs.

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