Douglas Kent Hall
Douglas Kent Hall | |
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| Born | December 12, 1938 |
| Died | March 30, 2008 (aged 69) |
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| Language | English |
| Education | Brigham Young University Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Period | 1955–2008 |
| Spouse | Claire Nicholson (1959–1970) Dawn Claire Davidson (1971–2008, his death) |
| Children | Devon Hall (b. 1980) |
Douglas Kent Hall (December 12, 1938 – March 30, 2008) was an American writer and photographer. His writing mostly focused on fiction, poetry, non-fiction, essays, and screenplays. His first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and in 1974 his first exhibition was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Hall published twenty-five books, including two with Arnold Schwarzenegger. His photographs cover subjects such as rock and roll, musicians, rodeo, cowboys, prison, flamenco, bodybuilders, the U.S.-Mexico border, the American West, New Mexico, New York City, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain, Greece, Russia, Native Americans, writers, and artists. Hall's work also included collaborations with Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, Terry Allen, and his son Devon Hall.
In 2008, at the time of Hall's unexpected death, solo exhibitions of his photographs hung concurrently at the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; the Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico.