Kali: Artographer

The discovery of never-before-seen artwork - vivid, psychedelic, treatment-texured and intensely-colourful photographic prints and Polaroids - of a 1960s runaway housewife named Joan Archibald from Long Island, reborn in Malibu and then Palm Springs as Kali, has been gathered in a trade photo book for the very first time. Her prodigious output, which was rarely seen in the 60s and 70s and then locked away for 40 years, is nothing less than ‘California’s Vivian Maier’ according to Matt Tyrnauer in his substantial essay in this new book.