Douglas Kent Hall Explained

Douglas Kent Hall
Birth Date:	12 December 1938
Birth Place:	Vernal, Utah, U.S.
Death Place:	Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
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. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays. His first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and In 1974 his first exhibition of photographs was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Hall published twenty-five books, including two with Arnold Schwarzenegger. His photographs often 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 artistic output included collaborations with Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, Terry Allen, and his son Devon Hall.

In 2008, following Hall's 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; and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico.

Early life and education

Hall was born in Vernal, Utah, to Phyllis Hiatt and Charles William "Peck" Hall. He was the oldest of two children. While Peck Hall was serving in the Navy during World War II, his marriage to Phyllis broke up and the two 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.^[1]

At the age of seventeen, Hall entered Utah State University, Logan, to study creative writing. He transferred to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and then to Brigham Young University where he earned his bachelor's degree in English in 1960. At BYU Hall started lifelong friendships with Alfred L. Bush and David Stires. Bush became the Curator of Western Americana at the Firestone Library, Princeton University, and Stires became a publishing executive. Hall's undergraduate years included the study of the creative process with Brewster Ghiselin, editor of the book The Creative Process.^[2] Hall met and married Claire Nicholson of Boise, Idaho between his junior and senior years at BYU. The two remained married for ten years.^[1] Hall was accepted into the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. For three years he worked as a special assistant to Paul Engle, director of the program.^[3] While at the Writer's Workshop Hall befriended, among others, Mark Strand, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, Robert Bly, and Adrian Mitchell.^[4] Hall wrote and published while at Iowa.^[5]

Early career

In 1963, Hall commenced a position at the University of Portland teaching Creative Writing and Literature. Hall and Claire moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1964. During his time at the University of Portland, Hall brought poets to the school for readings, including Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, Anaïs Nin, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, William Stafford, and Robert Bly.^[4] Hall also became active in the American Writers Against the Vietnam War. At this time a friend lent Hall a camera and he taught himself photography, studying photographic technique and style. He photographed poets and the group of artists he befriended in Portland, including Lee Kelly, Carl Morris, and Hilda Morris.^[1]

Hall's increasing interest in photography led to freelance photographic work. He photographed Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison of the Doors for Sunn Music, makers of amplifiers. He received commercial and magazine photographic assignments and realized he could dedicate himself to his writing and photography and left the world of academia.^[1]

In 1967, Hall traveled throughout England, France, Italy, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal with his cameras. He shot his first images in the Dark Landscapes series. In 1968, Hall moved from Portland to London and continued work in advertising and on his series of artist and writer portraits and his art photography. He began formulating the idea of Passing, which dominated most of the philosophy behind his personal work.^[6]

Writing and photography career

Hall and his wife moved from London to New York City in 1968. He continued to photograph rock and roll stars, which resulted in the publication of Rock: A World Bold as Love, released later in paperback as The Superstars: In Their Own Words.^[7] In New York, Hall continued writing. He published his first novel, On the Way to the Sky, in 1972.^[8] This book fictionalized Hall's childhood years in Vernal, Utah, and his relatives. Hall's time spent in the world of rock and roll led to his novel Rock and Roll Retreat Blues, published in 1974.^[9]

While driving across the country with Alfred Bush in 1969, Hall shot his first Passing series. In 1971, he developed the first negatives for Passing II.^[6]

Hall's marriage to Claire dissolved in 1970. He returned briefly to Portland, Oregon, and worked doing commercial photography jobs and writing. He met his future second wife, Dawn Claire Davidson, a fashion coordinator, in May 1971. The following December the two moved to New York and set up residence and studio in a loft on 21st Street and 7th Avenue.^[1]

In the 1970s, Hall lived in New York but spent much time traveling. His work included writing a book about rodeo titled Let Er Buck; writing and codirecting a feature documentary film about rodeo titled The Great American Cowboy, which won an Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary; and publishing a photography book titled Rodeo, which was followed in the early 1980s by another book about cowboys, this one about ranch cowboys, titled Working Cowboys. Mark Strand writes, "These cowboys, as opposed to urban cowboys, drugstore cowboys, rodeo cowboy, or movie cowboys, stay on horseback all day long working cattle. And when they stand in front of the camera—in Hall's best photos, they are standing, looking straight into the camera lens—their detached way of life shows."^[10] The 1970s also saw the publication of Hall's second novel, Rock and Roll Retreat Blues. In 1974, Hall exhibited his photographs for the first time, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibition and accompanying catalog, Photography in America, is where the public first viewed his photograph, Mesquite, Texas.^[11]

During the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s, Hall worked on books collaboratively. In 1975, Hall's literary agent, Bob Dattila, asked him if he would be interested in working on a project with bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hall and Schwarzenegger published two books, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder and Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women. Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eleven weeks in 1978.^[12] In 2002, Sports Illustrated included the Hall/Schwarzenegger collaboration as number 71 on their "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time".^[13] During the writing and photographing of Bodyshaping for Women, Hall became acquainted with female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon; the friendship led to the publication of their book Lisa Lyon's BodyMagic.^[14] The Incredible Lou Ferrigno, with bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, rounded out Hall's collaborative publishing ventures with bodybuilders.^[15]

In 1977, Hall and his partner moved from New York to the village of Alcalde, New Mexico. After living together for more than six years, they were married in Santa Fe on July 23, 1977. In 1980, their son Devon was born. Hall traveled throughout the Southwest and along the Mexico–U.S. border in the 1980s gathering material for two photographic books. The Border: Life on the Line introduced Hall to the varied types of people who live and work on both sides of the border. The book includes many color photographs.^[16] Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest also includes many color images.^[17]

In 1992, Hall began printing with platinum. Also in the early 1990s, Hall traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to document the Hermitage Museum's art school for children. He photographed in the students' homes and at the museum.^[1] During this period Hall also traveled to Minas Gerais, Brazil, to document the region's gold and gemstone miners.^[18]

In the mid-1990s, Hall began producing his Zen Ghost Horses series with images of Peruvian Paso and Clydesdale horses exposed onto handmade paper that was brushed with emulsion. Hall embellished the works with gold leaf, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, and acrylics.^[1] Taking color images shot along the Mexico–U.S. border, Hall created a suite of artes de caja (art boxes). These pieces incorporate color photographs, poems, milagros, objects picked up while traveling the border, and pages from Mexican graphic novelettes into and on hand-painted wooden wine boxes. The Albuquerque Museum showed fifteen of the border boxes for four months as part of a tribute exhibition for Hall in 2008.^[19]

After being awarded the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2005,^[20] Hall's In New Mexico Light, a compilation of his images taken over a forty-year time span, was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.^[21]

In 2002, Hall's first collection of poems was published in Visionary. The book also contains an extended auto-memoir/poem.^[1]

Martial arts

Hall began studying and practicing Kaju Kenpo karate in Santa Fe in 1986, receiving his Nidan black belt in 1998. He taught karate in Española, New Mexico until 2002. While continuing to practice karate, Hall also incorporated Tai Chi into his daily spiritual practice. When photographer Joyce Tenneson selected Hall in 2004 for inclusion in her book Amazing Men, she photographed him working with martial arts weapons.^[22]

Death

Hall died suddenly at his home in Albuquerque on March 30, 2008; the cause of death was described as "a cardiac incident." He was survived by his wife, Dawn, and son, Devon Hall, a composer and pianist.^{[23] [24]}

Writing

Hall's first writing was fiction. His first novel, On the Way to the Sky, is set in Utah and explores themes that surface frequently in his work: small-town life, surviving a broken home, Mormonism, hunting and fishing, music, and rodeo.

His second novel, Rock and Roll Retreat Blues, is a commentary on the world of rock and roll and the culture it creates. According to a Publishers Weekly review,^[25]

The third novel, The Master of Oakwindsor, set in 1908 England, explores the clash between rural England and a new and darker industrial Britain and between two families.

Hall wrote numerous books of nonfiction, which include his photographs, rodeo, cowboy life, bodybuilding, prison, the historic churches of the Southwest, and the border between the United States and Mexico.

Photographs

Princeton University curator Alfred L. Bush writes:^[26]

The protagonist in the Sam Shepard story "San Juan Bautista" says: "I'm more into faces—people; Robert Frank, Douglas Kent Hall, guys like that."^[27] On the occasion of the exhibition in Santa Fe of Os Brasileiros (The Brazilians), David Bell notes,^[28]

Hall, who has recently made several trips to Brazil and the Amazon, takes as his subjects not only the miners who were his first objective but families, farmers . . . and students, too. The result is a composite portrait of a people who in most cases appear to give themselves with equal abandon to the camera and to life.

Mark Strand noted in Vogue magazine,^[29]

When discussing the complex relationship of a photograph to history, Hall noted to the author of Photography: New Mexico, Kristin Barendsen,^[30]

Transition to digital photography

Hall started out with a 35mm camera, added a 2 square format camera, and kept working with those two formats using Nikons, Leica Cameras, and Hasselblads. In the mid-1990s, he added digital cameras to his arsenal. In a Rangefinder magazine article, Hall said to author/photographer Paul Slaughter:^[31]

Hall had five external hard drives. He said to Slaughter,

Hall used the Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom software programs for after-capture processing and did his own printing, both digital and traditional. He had four Epson inkjet printers. For digital printing, he favored watercolor papers. He told Slaughter:

Archives

Hall's papers are held at Princeton University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections. The collection, which is open to researchers, consists of 101 boxes, spanning 93 linear feet.^[32]

Awards

• J. Marinus Jensen Short Story Contest, Brigham Young University, 1959^[1]
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Great American Cowboy, 1974^[33]
• Honorary Chair, College of Notre Dame's Sister Catherine Julie Cunningham visiting scholar award. Fine Arts Department, College of Notre Dame, San Francisco, Spring 1997^[34]
• Distinguished Alumnus of Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, 1999^[1]
• New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2005^[35]
• Medici Gold Medal Career Award, Florence Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, 2005^[36]
• Finalist, New Mexico Book Awards, art books, for In New Mexico Light, 2008^[37]

Quotations

• The camera, the split-second blink of the shutter, taught me that time does not pass. It is we who pass. We pass through time and we waste only ourselves. Time is indifferent to us and to our folly. Time remains the one certainty we have, the fixed and constant factor – more concrete than life, more permanent than space.^[38]

Works

Books

• Rock: A World Bold As Love (1970)
• The Superstars: In Their Own Words (1970)
• On the Way to the Sky (1972)
• Let 'Er Buck! (1973)
• Rock and Roll Retreat Blues (1974)
• Rodeo (1975),
• The Master of Oakwindsor (1976)
• Ski with Billy Kidd (1976)
• Van People: The Great American Rainbow Boogie (1977), (pbk.)
• Arnold: The Education of a Body Builder (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) (1977)
• Bodyshaping for Women (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) (1979)
• Bodymagic (with Lisa Lyon) (1981),
• The Incredible Lou Ferrigno (1982)
• Working Cowboys (1984)
• The Border: Life on the Line (1988)
• In Prison (1988)
• Passing Through: Western Meditations of Douglas Kent Hall (1989)
• Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest (1990)
• New Mexico: Voices in an Ancient Landscape (1995)
• Prison Tattoos (1997),
• Albuquerque 2000 (2000)
• The Thread of New Mexico (2001)
• Visionary (2002)
• Noches Perdidas, 2003
• In New Mexico Light (2007)
• City Light: Douglas Kent Hall's New York, forthcoming

Films

• The Great American Cowboy, screenplay and narration^[33]
• Wheels of Fire, director and screenplay^[39]
• Arnold and Maria, interviewee, E! Network, 2003
• Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero, interviewee^[40]
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, screenplay (with Justin Ackerman)^[41]
• The Great Joe Bob, screenplay, based on a song by Terry Allen^[41]
• Sirens, photographer^[42]
• Fool for Love, photographer^[43]
• Roosters, photographer^[44]
• Tattoo Nation, still photographs^[45]
• Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, A Film by Haydn Reiss, still photographs^[46]

Photography

Public collections^[41]

• Atlantic Richfield, Dallas, TX, and Los Angeles, CA
• Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
• The Doan Collection, Fort Dodge, IA
• Fannin National Bank, Houston, TX
• Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, CA
• Steve Gold, Inc., New York, NY
• Ovenwest Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
• The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
• Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
• Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
• Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
• Blue Cross Blue Shield, Albuquerque, NM
• New Mexico Museum of Art (formerly the Museum of Fine Arts), Santa Fe, NM
• El Paso Museum of Archaeology, El Paso, TX
• Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM
• New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
• Blue Cross Blue Shield, Philadelphia, PA
• Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas^[47]
• Hotel Erwin, Venice Beach, CA, two collections
• Mobil Oil Corporation, Dallas, TX
• Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• City of Phoenix, AZ
• New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM
• Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
• McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX
• The Martin Foundation, San Francisco, CA
• Star Canyon, Las Vegas, NV
• Albuquerque International Sunport Collection, NM
• Princess Cruise Line, CA
• University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM
• University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
• University of New Mexico, HSC Art Collection, NM
• Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX
• Regency Hotel, Hong Kong, China
• University of California, Los Angeles, Arts Library, CA
• Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
• Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
• National Museum of African American History and Culture, a Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Notable photographs^[48]

• Mesquite, Texas^[49]
• Jimi Hendrix Seattle
• Taos Man^[50]
• Bareback Rider
• Tina Turner^[51]
• Andy Warhol at the Factory
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Horse, La Villita
• Generations, Navajo^[49]
• Sandia
• Jim Morrison, Portland^[52]
• Calf Roping, Pendleton
• Picuris Man
• Bell Spur
• Paris, 1980

Other books, catalogs, and portfolios about Hall or with contribution by Hall

• "James Joyce at 71: Rue du Cardinal Lemoine," essay by Douglas Kent Hall, Brigham Young University Studies 3, nos. 3–4 (Spring–Summer 1961): pp. 43–49.
• Photography in America, New York, Random House, 1974, pp. 246–47.
• "Love of Traction," essay by Douglas Kent Hall. Esquire, September 1976, p. 76.^[53]
• "Van Art," essay and photographs by Douglas Kent Hall. Esquire, September 1977, p. 115.^[54]
• Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature, Binghamton, NY, 1982
• The Cowboy, New York, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1983, pp. 226–27.
• Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. XLIV, Spring 1983, portfolio of Matachines photographs
• Photoflexion, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984
• Third Western States Exhibition, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Santa Fe, Western States Arts Foundation, 1986, Library of Congress Catalogue No. 85-052333
• 3 / Photographers: Douglas Kent Hall, Bruce Berman, and Roger Manley, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM, 1986
• Images of Spirit and Vision, Santa Fe, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1987, p. 74.
• Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen, Stuttgart, Germany, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1987
• Way Out West, Tokyo, Japan, Treville Publishing Co., 1990, 21 pages. C0072
• Electric Gypsy, London, England, Heinemann and Heinemann, 1990, color p. xv.
• Zero Mass, The Art of Eric Orr, Stockholm, Sweden, Propexus, 1990, pp. 284–85.
• Esquire/Japan, Working Cowboys and Artist Profile, Tokyo, Japan, July 1991
• Southwest Profile, Portfolio of Fourteen Photographs; Santa Fe, NM, August, September, October 1991
• Southwest Profile, Portfolio of Nine Photographs, Santa Fe, NM, November, December, January 1991/1992
• The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, Bella Godiva Music, Inc., 1991, pp. 18, 36, 96, 122, 154.
• Radio One, Hendrix, Bella Godiva Music, Inc., 1991, all photographs.
• The Doors: The Complete Lyrics, A Delta Book, 1992, pp. 88, 93, 105, 110, 166.
• Imago, vols. 3–5, Japan, Portfolio, 1992
• Walking Swiftly, edited by Thomas R. Smith, HarperPerennial, 1992, photograph of Robert Bly, p. 73.
• Chaco Past, Boxed Portfolio of Douglas Kent Hall photographs of Chaco Canyon, 1992
• Chaco Future, Boxed Portfolio of Douglas Kent Hall photographs of Chaco Canyon, 1992
• Photographer's Forum, Exclusive magazine interview and portfolio of eight photographs, November 1992
• a simple story (Juárez), Terry Allen, Ohio State University, Wexner Center, 1992
• The Photograph and the American Indian, by Alfred L. Bush and Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University Press, 1994
• The Paintings of William Lumpkins, "William Lumpkins in Roswell," catalog essay, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM, 1995
• Understanding Art, Fourth Edition, by Lois Fichner-Rathus, Prentice Hall, 1995
• It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, by David S. Rubin, Munich, Prestel, 1995.,
• The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix, by Monika Dannemann, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995.
• Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience, by Adrian Boot and Chris Salewicz, London, Boxtree, 1995.
• Philadelphia Photo Review, portfolio, Prison Tattoos, the Stations of the Body, volume 19, number 4, Fall 1996
• Westerns, by Lee Clark Mitchell, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• A Borderless Vision: A Douglas Kent Hall Retrospective, catalog for Solo Exhibition, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA, 1997
• Larry Bell: Zones of Experience, two essays, Albuquerque, The Albuquerque Museum, 1997, Library of Congress Catalogue No. 94-12045
• Eyewitness: The Illustrated Jimi Hendrix Concerts, 1969–1970, compiled by Ben Valkhoff, Up from the Skies Unlimited, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 1997, p. 80.
• Master Breasts, Aperture, New York, NY, 1998, pp. 4–5.
• History of Photography: A Bibliography of Books, vol. 4, Laurent Roosens and Luc Salu, Mansell, 1999, p. 140. .
• 23. International Biennial of Graphic Arts/Mednarodni Graficni Bienale, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
• Leslie Marmon SIlko, University of New Mexico Press, 1999, cover photograph.
• "Toughest Indian in the World," by Sherman Alexie, The New Yorker, June 21, 1999, p. 96, Douglas Kent Hall photograph ^[55]
• Tamarind: Forty Years, by Marge Devon, University of New Mexico Press, 2000, p. 145.
• Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters, Gladys Reichard, University of New Mexico Press, 2001, cover photograph.
• Alvin Lee & Ten Years After, by Herb Staehr, Hingham, MA, Free Street Press, 2001.
• New Mexico Magazine, Master's Showcase, July 2001
• Chokecherries 2001 (Cover photo), SOMOS, Taos, NM, 2002
• Magnifico: Art of Albuquerque: A World of Paint and Polish, catalog essay, August 2002
• Tony Price Atomic Artist, catalog essay, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, "Dancing to the Music: Tony Price in Retrospect," November 2002. ;
• The Book of War: White Sands, collaborative multimedia artist book. Portfolio of Douglas Kent Hall photographs of White Sands, and DVD/CD of Douglas Kent Hall poetry read by Douglas Kent Hall with music composed and recorded by Devon Hall, composer, 2002
• The Social Lens, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, July 2003
• Just You Just Me: The Art of Lily Fenichel, catalog essay, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, 2004. ;
• Amazing Men, photographs by Joyce Tenneson, Bulfinch, New York, 2004.
• Classic Hendrix, Genesis Publications, Surrey, England, 2004 ;
• New Mexico 24/7, DK Publishing, New York, 2004, pp. 65, 66, 70–71, 107, 110, 120–21.
• Dugout, by Terry Allen, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2005.
• Carl*s Cars Magazine, Photographic Portfolio and Interview, "Van People." Issue 12, Summer 2005, Oslo, Norway
• Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, by Charles Cross, Hyperion, 2005, insert p. 9.
• Carl*s Cars Magazine, Cover and Photographic Portfolio, "Passing." Issue 14, Winter 2005, Oslo, Norway
• Biennale Internazionale Dell'arte Contemporanea, Quinta Edizione, Florence Biennale, Italy, 2005
• Essentials of Argument, by Nancy V. Wood, Pearson/Prentice Hall, NJ, 2006, border photograph.
• Hope: Preserving Tibetan Culture, Dalai Lama Benefit, CoolGreySeven/Dalai Lama Norbulinka Institute, 2006
• Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience, Janie L. Hendrix and John McDermott, New York and London, Atria Books, 2007. ;
• Green, Inaugural Exhibition, essay by Sharyn Udall, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, 2007
• El Palacio, excerpt from In New Mexico Light, 6 pages, Fall 2007
• Iconic America, Tommy Hilfiger with George Lois, New York, Rizzoli/Universe, November 2007.
• Insights: The Portraiture Of Charles R. Rushton, Nabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Norman Oklahoma, 2008.
• Titans: Muhammad Ali and Arnold Schwarzenegger, photographs by Al Satterwhite, essay contributions by Douglas Kent Hall, Dalton Watson Fine Art Books, 2008.
• Mass: Of This World: The Art of Alan Paine Radebaugh, Radebaugh Fine Art, Albuquerque 2008
• Photography: New Mexico, essays by Kristin Barendsen, Fresco Fine Art Publishers, 2008.
• Thirty Year Selected Retrospective, Midwestern State University Art Gallery, Wichita Falls, TX, 2008
• Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, 2009.
• Rangefinder, portfolio of eight photographs, article by Paul Slaughter, March 2009
• Raymond Carver

A Life, Carl Sklenicka, Scribner, 2009.

• Terry Allen, University of Texas Press, 2010.
• College of Notre Dame People: Douglas Kent Hall, Textstream, 2010. ;
• Day out of Days, Sam Shepard, Vintage Books, 2011, p. 50. . See also The Wall Street Journal, December 2–3, 2017, Books section.
• Perspectives on Argument, by Nancy V. Wood and James Miller, Pearson Education, NJ, 2011, border photograph.
• The Rolling Stones in Portugal, Rolando Rebolo, Zebra Publicações, 2011
• Larry Bell, Carré d'Arte–Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France, 2011.
• Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. LXXIII, Autumn 2011, announcement of the acquisition of the Douglas Kent Hall Papers
• Hendrix on Hendrix: Encounters and Interviews with Jimi Hendrix, Steven Roby, Chicago Review Press, 2012.
• Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Simon and Schuster, 2012, pp. 226–27.
• "Top Five Iconic Music Photos," photo of Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker by Douglas Kent Hall, Elmore Magazine, issue 59, November/December 2013
• Princeton University Library Chronicle, "Photography and the Princeton Collections of Western Americana," by Gabriel A. Swift, vol. LXXV, no. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 242–43
• 20th Century Photographers, Grace Schaub, Routledge, 2015, pp. 99–106.
• Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, Joseph Traugott, Albuquerque Museum, 2015.
• 100 Years of Tattoos, David McComb, London: Laurence King Publishing, 2016.
• 75 Years of Capitol Records, edited by Reuel Golden, Taschen, 2017, pp. 299, 483.
• "The Ascetic," by Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, September 18, 2017, photograph of W. S. Merwin by Douglas Kent Hall, p. 67 ^[56]

External links

• • The Douglas Kent Hall Papers at Princeton University

Notes and References

1. Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography with Commentary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27–134.
2. Brewster Ghiselin, The Creative Process (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), .
3. Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (New York: Scribner, 2009), 95.
4. Thomas R. Smith, ed., Walking Swiftly: Writings in Honor of Robert Bly (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993), 73.
5. Douglas Kent Hall, "I, Georg Gurko, and Other Stories of Friendship and Love," Master of Fine Arts Thesis, University of Iowa, 1964.
6. Douglas Kent Hall, Passing Through (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland, 1989.
7. Douglas Kent Hall, Rock: A World Bold as Love (New York: Cowles, 1970); Douglas Kent Hall, The Superstars: In Their Own Words (New York: Music Sales, 1970).
8. Douglas Kent Hall, On the Way to the Sky (New York: McCall Books, 1972).
9. Douglas Kent Hall, Rock and Roll Retreat Blues (New York: Avon, 1974).
10. Mark Strand, "Sure Enough Cowboys," in Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 150.
11. Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), 246.
12. Web site: The New York Times Best Seller List, April 23, 1978. Hawes Publications . 18 November 2010.
13. The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time . . December 16, 2002 .
14. Douglas Kent Hall and Lisa Lyon, BodyMagic (New York: Bantam, 1981)
15. Douglas Kent Hall and Lou Ferrigno, The Incredible Lou Ferrigno (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982)
16. Douglas Kent Hall, The Border: Life on the Line (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), flap copy.
17. Douglas Kent Hall, Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990), flap copy.
18. Douglas Kent Hall, Os Brasileiros (Santa Fe: Sena Galleries West, 1989) and (Las Vegas: Nevada State Museum, 1990)
19. At www.cabq.gov/museum.
20. "The Award Winners." http://artsawards.newmexicoculture.org/search.php?type=name&sort=year. New Mexico Department of Cultural affairs. Accessed April 2016.
21. Douglas Kent Hall, In New Mexico Light (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007).
22. Joyce Tenneson, Amazing Men (New York: Bulfinch, 2004), 50–51.
23. Web site: Douglas Kent Hall Obituary (2008) Santa Fe New Mexican. Legacy.com.
24. Web site: Douglas Kent Hall, 1938–2008: A career full of diversity, insight. https://archive.today/20120913075910/http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/douglas-kent-hall---1938-2008-A-career-full-of-diversity--insig. dead. September 13, 2012. Craig. Smith. March 31, 2008. The Santa Fe New Mexican. May 18, 2010.
25. Publishers Weekly, October 7, 1974.
26. Alfred Bush, Introduction, in Douglas Kent Hall, Passing Through (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland, 1989).
27. Sam Shepard, "San Juan Bautista," in Day out of Days (New York: Vintage, 2010), 50.
28. David Bell, Journal North, December 14, 1989, 4.
29. Mark Strand, Vogue Magazine, "People Are Talking About," March 1985.
30. Kristin Barendsen, Photography: New Mexico (Albuquerque: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008), 101.
31. Paul Slaughter, "Douglas Kent Hall, 21st Century Renaissance Artist," Rangefinder (March 2009): 96–101.
32. Web site: Douglas Kent Hall Papers, 1950s-2011 (mostly 1970-2000) - Finding Aids. findingaids.princeton.edu.
33. Web site: The Great American Cowboy - IMDb. IMDb.
34. http://www.ndnu.edu/academics/; Douglas Kent Hall, Visionary: An Autobiography (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 2002), 27–134.
35. The New Mexican, Pasatiempo, September 23–29, 2005, p. 62; Rio Grande Sun, Arts, June 16, 2005, p. 10.
36. Web site: Florence Biennale | Winners 2005 . 2010-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101210162715/http://www.florencebiennale.org/e_premiati05.php . 2010-12-10 .
37. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714190154/http://nmbookcoop.com/2008-Finalists.pdf . 2011-07-14 .
38. Douglas Kent Hall, 3 / Photographers (Roswell: Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1986), p. 3.
39. Web site: Wheels of Fire (1973) - IMDb. IMDb.
40. Web site: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero (TV Movie 1999) - IMDb. IMDb.
41. Web site: Home . douglaskenthall.com.
42. Web site: Sirens (1994) - IMDb. IMDb.
43. Web site: Fool for Love (1985) - IMDb. IMDb.
44. Web site: Roosters (1993) - IMDb. IMDb.
45. Web site: Tattoo Nation (2013) - IMDb. IMDb.
46. Web site: Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy (2015) - IMDb. IMDb.
47. Web site: Collections | the MFAH Collections .
48. Douglas Kent Hall, Passing Through (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland, 1989), cover; http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1384
49. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-04-08 . 2015-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180131/http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/34756-douglas-kent-hall?tab=ARTWORKS . dead .
50. Douglas Kent Hall, In New Mexico Light (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007), back cover.
51. Web site: Douglas Kent Hall | Artnet.
52. Web site: Douglas Kent Hall Auctions Results | Artnet.
53. Web site: Welcome to the Complete Esquire Archive.
54. Web site: Welcome to the Complete Esquire Archive.
55. The Toughest Indian in the World. The New Yorker. 13 June 1999.
56. The Ascetic Insight of W. S. Merwin. The New Yorker. 11 September 2017.