Douglas Kent Hall
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| Born | December 12, 1938 Vernal, Utah |
| Died | March 30, 2008 (aged 69) Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer, photographer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education |
Brigham Young University Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Period | 1955–2008 |
| Spouse | Claire Nicholson (1959–1970) Dawn Claire Davidson (1971–2008) |
| Children | Devon Hall (b. 1980) |
Douglas Kent Hall (December 12, 1938 – March 30, 2008) was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays. He was in high school when he first published a story, his first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and his first exhibition of photographs was at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
He published twenty-five books, including two with Arnold Schwarzenegger. His photographs are of rock and roll superstars, 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 artistic output included collaborations with Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, Terry Allen, and his son Devon Hall.
At the time of his sudden death in 2008, solo exhibitions of his photographs hung concurrently at the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; the Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico. His book In New Mexico Light had just been selected for the Eric Hoffer Award.
Hall was born in Vernal, Utah, to Phyllis Hiatt and Charles William "Peck" Hall; he was the elder of two children. His brother, Wayne Hall, was born eighteen months after Douglas. Although Vernal is a Mormon community, the young Hall family did not practice the faith. While Peck Hall was serving in the Navy during World War II, his marriage to Phyllis broke up and the two small boys started living with their maternal grandmother, Beulah Perry. Hall's elementary and high school years were spent with his grandparents on rural farms in the Vernal area. He raised sheep and cows that he exhibited and sold at County Fairs. During high school Hall was a rodeo contestant.
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