Hall, Douglas Kent

Douglas Kent Hall was a 20th-century American writer and photographer born in Vernal, Utah and later residing in New York City and New Mexico. He began his career as a creative writer and received his Masters of Fine Arts from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1964 before going on to teach at the University of Portland. Hall began to experiment with photography in 1965 and started by photographing his poet and writer friends. He would spend the next forty years traveling, writing and photographing on a variety of topics and locations, first by freelancing for a number of magazines and promotional companies and eventually leaving academia to travel Europe. After his return to New York City in 1971, Hall published his first novel in 1972, wrote an Academy award winning documentary in 1973, and began to exhibit his photographs with his first show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974. In 1977, Hall moved to New Mexico where he went on to write and photograph about the American Southwest, a number of subcultures, and his travels. He published twenty-five books (fiction, non-fiction and photographic) over the course of his lifetime and continued to photograph, travel, write, and exhibit up until his death. Douglas Kent Hall died on March 20, 2008.

From the description of Douglas Kent Hall papers, 1950s-2011. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 759913098

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