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Douglas Kent Hall Papers
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Douglas Kent Hall was born on December 12, 1938, in Vernal, Utah, a rural community approximately two hundred miles from Salt Lake City. Hall spent his youth in Utah on a family farm where he developed a deep interest in the world of cowboys and rodeo from a very young age. He began writing while in high school and went on to study Creative Writing at a number of institutions before earning his BA in English at Brigham Young University in 1960. Hall then received his MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1964, and began teaching.
In 1965, Hall began experimenting with photography and he studied technique for the next two years. Some of Hall's earliest work is the result of his photographing his poet and writer friends while teaching at the University of Portland from 1964-1967. Freelance photography soon proved lucrative and in 1967 he began photographing for promotional and advertising companies and contributing text to magazines. That same year, Hall left academia and began a tour of Europe, later residing in London. He returned to the United States in 1969 and settled in New York City in 1971, where he had his first photography exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974.
Hall's continuing interest in creative writing defined most of his early career and he published four novels and six photography books in the 1970s. Not limited to books, Hall also wrote an Academy Award-winning documentary about rodeo (his longtime interest) and a number of other unproduced screenplays. His novels from this time were often autobiographical and centered around his rural Mormon-influenced childhood, while the photography books explored subcultures to which Hall found himself drawn or incidentally introduced as an adult, such as rock and roll, bodybuilding, and prison life.
In 1977, Hall relocated from New York City to New Mexico, a move that would influence the next thirty years of his work. His subsequent proximity to the American southwest and border region, with its local environs and people, resulted in at least ten major publications and projects from the 1980s through the 2000s. As many if not more unpublished photography projects were also developed in this time, often based on travel to Russia, Japan, England, Brazil, and Australia.
Hall continued to photograph, travel, write, and exhibit up until his death. Douglas Kent Hall died on March 30, 2008. He was survived by his wife Dawn and son Devon.
The Douglas Kent Hall Papers document approximately fifty years of the creator's life and contain materials relating to the two major aspects of his work: creative writing and photography. The collection includes manuscripts, notes, and research files as well as black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, color transparencies and prints for almost all of Hall's published and unpublished writings and photography projects. Audio and visual materials are included in a number of magnetic and optical formats (cassette tapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and one 45rpm vinyl record). There is also handwritten and typed correspondence relating to those projects, and more general correspondence ranging from personal letters to business dealings with galleries. Unassociated and contextually ambiguous materials are also included.
A great majority of Hall's creative writing is present, consisting of books, plays, articles, essays, screenplays and teleplays, poetry, and short stories from his time as a student up until his death. There are drafts of major publications including his first novel On the Way to the Sky (1972) and Let 'Er Buck (1973), as well as the interviews and research behind the documentary The Great American Cowboy. A majority of the series consists of unpublished drafts and related materials that are usually thematically related to other writings and photography projects that Hall was developing concurrently. Other creative writings include a number of autobiographical short stories, freelance articles and reviews, a large amount of unpublished poetry, and many unproduced screenplays.
The creative bulk of the collection consists of at least 96,000 unique images in the form of black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, color transparencies, and prints spanning Hall's forty years of photography. Major subjects include rock and roll stars from the 1960s and early 1970s (including Jimi Hendrix and The Who), the American southwest (including rodeos, mission churches, border residents, and Native dances), poets and artists (including Mark Strand, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin) and photographic studies of subcultures including bodybuilding (with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno), prison life, drag racing, dance, and cowboy lifestyles. Locations photographed include the U.S.-Mexico border, the American West, New Mexico, New York City, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia. Since a number of these projects were developed as publications, the photographs are accompanied by manuscripts, notes, research files, and correspondence related to their production.
The collection is organized into four major series with additional subdivisions.
Bibliography Hall, Douglas Kent. 2000. Albuquerque 2000. Albuquerque, N.M.: Albuquerque Museum. Hall, Douglas Kent. 2002. Visionary: Douglas Kent Hall. Santa Fe, N.M.: Pennywhistle Press.
Gift of Douglas Kent Hall in 1972 and 1975, and of Dawn Hall in 2010 (AM 2011-10), 2011 (AM 2012-6, AM 2012-21), 2012 (AM 2012-86), and 2015 (AM 2016-41).
The 16 prints of Los Matachines de Alcalde (formerly WC066) were a gift of David McAlpin, Princeton Class of 1920.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
Approximately 10,000 strips of negatives (35mm and 120mm) and approximately 11,000 35mm slides were re-housed in archival mylar pages.
This collection was processed by Valerie Addonizio in 2010-2011 with assistance from Lisa Yankowitz '13. Finding aid written by Valerie Addonizio in 2011.
No appraisal information is available.
People
- Hall, Douglas Kent.
- Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold
- Stafford, William, 1914-1993
- Strand, Mark, 1934-2014
Subject
- Artists -- Photographs
- Indians of North America -- Photographs
- Photographers -- New Mexico -- 20th century
- Photography -- 20th century
- Poets -- Photographs
- Prisoners -- Photographs
- Rock groups -- Photographs
- Rodeos -- Photographs
- Subculture -- Photographs
Place
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Valerie Addonizio
- Finding Aid Date
- 2011
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from Dawn Hall, the Estate of Douglas Kent Hall, 1716 Camino Gusto NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107. Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
Collection Inventory
This series consists primarily of manuscripts for published and unpublished books and novels, short stories, poetry, articles, essays, screenplays, teleplays, documentaries, academic assignments, as well as treatments and proposals for unrealized projects. Research, interviews, correspondence, working drafts, audio and visual materials in a number of magnetic and optical formats, and reviews are also included with the project to which they correspond. Excerpts from Hall's writing projects (including books) often appeared in magazines; these materials are arranged with the project from which they originated.
A majority of the material dates from Hall's undergraduate and graduate education in English and Creative Writing undertaken at Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the Iowa's Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Other material dates from Hall's time teaching at the University of Portland (1964-1967), and then to the end of his life. Many of the themes of Hall's creative writing were autobiographical or based on personal interest, and similar themes are often reflected in concurrent writings of multiple genres, as well as photography projects located elsewhere in the collection.
All the material in this series is of a non-photographic nature, i.e. publications and manuscripts that did not include or revolve around photographic images. Photography-based books and manuscripts can be found in Series 2: Photography. Correspondence files in this series relate to the project for which they were compiled, however, Series 3: General Correspondence may also include correspondence for projects listed here. Researchers should check both series for correspondence relating to specific projects.
Researchers should be aware that the great majority of this series is stored off-site. Please refer to the Storage Note at the top of the finding aid for a list of box locations.
Most of the material is undated and dates were assigned based on the date of publication or production, or on Hall's address (almost always recorded on the manuscript). The following are the residency and date relationships used to date materials in this series:
Provo, Utah: 1958-1960
Montana: circa 1962
Iowa City, Iowa: 1962-1964
Portland, Oregon: 1964-1967; 1970-1971
(travel): 1967
London, England: 1968
New York City: 1968-1970; 1972-1977
Alcalde, New Mexico: 1977-2002
Albuquerque, New Mexico: 2002-2008
This series is arranged in eight subseries with additional subdivisions.
Physical Description24 boxes
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
This subseries consists of materials produced for specific assignments over the course of Hall's education. Much of the material in Subseries 1D: Plays and Subseries 1G: Short Stories is likely also the result of academic work.
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Early draft forms of this material are located in Subseries 1G: Short Stories.
TMss (carbon). Two copies, one incomplete. Consisting of three short stories: "The Girl from Fink Towers;" Buffalo Bill and the Symposium on Savages;" "I, Georg Gurko..." For Professor Paul Engle.
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This subseries consists primarily of drafts and associated research for freelance articles, mostly dating from the 1970s. Hall freelanced for a number of publications from approximately 1967 until 1986, including Rolling Stone and Esquire. This subseries contains only a small number of articles and does not represent all of Hall's freelance work.
Hall also wrote reviews and essays on the work of other artists and this subseries includes a few examples, one of which was published posthumously.
As is the case with most of Hall's creative material, some of the articles are directly related to research and writing that Hall was doing for other concurrent projects. When known, this information is provided at the file level. The name of the publication where the article appeared is provided when known.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.
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On the art of Lilly Fenichel. Included in the exhibition catalog Lilly Fenichel: Just You Just Me for The Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico.
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Includes 10 black-and-white prints of Zaloudek paintings and an exhibition poster.
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Also titled "Larry "Bull" Mahan, The Last (?) Macho Hero, Live at the Nugget." Includes notes and research.
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One letter from Rhea A. Kunz.
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For Oui magazine. TMss (Xerox) with autograph corrections.
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For Penthouse. Includes research and rough drafts.
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About artist William Lumpkins for New Mexico Magazine.
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About artist Larry Bell. See also: "Strange Days: Conversations with the Doctor."
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On the art of Alan Paine Radebaugh, published posthumously in 2009.
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For Rolling Stone, published December 19, 1974. Draft entitled "Jerry Jeff Walker Finds his Nitch: Redneck Rock." See also the screenplay "Mr. Bojangles."
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Included with book proposal for "Border Wars: Fire on the Line."
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For Esquire.
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About artist Larry Bell. See also: "Lunch with Dr. Lux."
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For Rolling Stone, published June 6, 1974. Draft entitled "The NFR: Rodeo Red Hot and Raunchy."
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This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.
This subseries consists of manuscripts, research, interviews, correspondence, and reviews for published and unpublished novels and non-fiction books. The bulk of the material dates from the 1960s and 1970s, but some projects were being edited up to the creator's death. All the material in this subseries is of a non-photographic nature, i.e. publications and manuscripts that did not include or revolve around photographic images. Photography-based books and manuscripts can be found in Series 2: Photography.
Many of the themes of Hall's creative writing were autobiographical or based on personal interest, and similar themes are often reflected in concurrent writings and photography projects located elsewhere in the collection.
This subseries is arranged into two divisions:
Published consists of research, interviews, correspondence, manuscripts, and reviews of Hall's published work dating primarily from the 1970s. Most of the material is undated and has been assigned dates based on residency and when the final work was published. A number of works have multiple working titles.
Unpublished consists of research, interviews, correspondence, and manuscripts of Hall's unpublished work dating primarily from the 1970s. Most of the material is undated and has been assigned dates based on context and residency. A number of works have multiple working titles.
The chronology for Hall's residency is provided at the series level. Unless otherwise noted, the majority of drafts are TMs with autograph corrections.
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This publication was developed concurrently with the documentary Great American Cowboy (1973) and the photography book Rodeo (1975) and as a result many of the peripheral research files and materials can apply to any or all these projects. Disassociated "Cowboy Files" are located in Series 4: Miscellaneous and Unassociated Materials.
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Includes correspondence with Chris Le Doux.
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Includes interviews with Larry Mahan and Douglas Kent Hall interviewing himself for Horse Lover's Magazine.
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Also titled "The Jew" and "Fragile Affairs."
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Includes poetry by Robin Leslie Calhoun.
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4 folders
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Also titled "The History of Louis Light: The Early Years."
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Also titled "The Machine" and "Inbetween."
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Paperback published by Avon Books. 256 pages.
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7 boxes
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Also titled "Missing in Life: Life Among the Dinosaurs" and "Confessions of a Jack-Mormon."
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5 folders
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Labeled "First Draft" by Hall.
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Also titled "Martin: In the Eyes of God."
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Also titled "Bull!"
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Also titled "Under the Arc of the Sky" and "A Summer's Chronicle."
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This subseries consists of unpublished plays dating primarily from the 1960s, during Hall's post-graduate education at the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa and years teaching at the University of Portland. A number of plays are likely the result of academic assignments. A majority of the manuscripts are typed with manuscript notations. Most of the material is undated, and date ranges were assigned based on Hall's residency. The chronology for this residency is provided at the series level.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.
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Related to "Dear Carol."
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Related to "A Question of Time."
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Includes handwritten notes, dialog, lyrics and action in envelopes divided by acts and scenes.
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Also titled "Where's Jerry Hershfield Going?" 6 drafts.
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This subseries consists of published and unpublished poetry spanning Hall's entire creative life from the 1960s until his death. The Early Poetry files were assigned dates based on their original context. The Later Poetry files include materials that appeared in Hall's book Visionary: Douglas Kent Hall (2002), but a majority of the material is unpublished and completely undated.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
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This material was originally placed with files now arranged into Subseries 1C: Books.
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7 folders
This subseries consists of produced and unproduced screenplays and teleplays and their related correspondence, research, interviews and reviews, most notably for the Academy Award winning documentary The Great American Cowboy released in 1973. The types of materials include manuscripts, cassette tapes, newspaper and magazine clippings, transcripts and promotional materials, and one 45rpm record. Film treatments for screenplays in this subseries appear with their corresponding project and are distinct from those in Subseries 1H: Treatments and Proposals.
A number of Hall's screenplays and teleplays are directly related to topics and subjects the creator was researching and photographing for other related projects. Researchers should reference concurrent files for the full treatment of a subject. Most of the material is undated, and date ranges were assigned based on Hall's residency. The chronology for this residency is provided at the series level.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.
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Includes screenplays for "Bradford of England, the First American" by David L. Wolper and "Aftermath" by David Sloan.
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This documentary was developed concurrently with the novel Let Er Buck (1973) and the photography book Rodeo (1975) and as a result many of the peripheral research files and materials can apply to any or all these projects. Disassociated "Cowboy Files" are located in Series 4: Miscellaneous and Unassociated Materials.
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Eight cassettes.
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VHS cassette.
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Includes correspondence with Terry Allen.
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A comedy written with Robert Bell.
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With Justin Ackerman.
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4 folders
Two microcassettes. One tape recorded with Peter Matthiessen.
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2 folders
See also "Mr. Bojangles' Dance: The Odyssey and Oddities of Jerry Jeff Walker," an article for Rolling Stone.
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Three microcassettes with Jerry Jeff Walker.
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Work on the screenplay began in 1978 and it was filmed in 1981. The film was produced but never distributed.
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Includes film treatment.
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Includes a 45rpm record by Johnny Dee and the Rocket 88's.
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This subseries consists of published and unpublished short stories dating primarily from the 1960s, during Hall's post-graduate education at the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa and years teaching at the University of Portland. A number of stories are likely the result of academic assignments, and earlier draft forms of the stories included in Hall's graduate thesis (located in Subseries 1A: Academic Assignments) are present here. The types of manuscripts are provided at the file level. Most of the material is undated, and date ranges were assigned based on Hall's residency. The chronology for this residency is provided at the series level.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.
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TMss (carbon). Two copies. See also: "The Flaming Cock, the Closing Eye." 17 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts with autograph corrections. Includes a page from a 1962 calendar. 10 pages.
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Published in Pen, Fall 1958 (copy included). TMs (carbon) with autograph corrections. 6 pages.
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TMs. 7 pages.
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TMss. Three drafts, two with autograph corrections. 19 pages, incomplete?
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. 15 pages. Includes letter from potential publisher dated June 4, 1962.
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TMss. Two incomplete drafts with autograph corrections. Approximately 25 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. 6 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. 18 pages.
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TMs. Four drafts with autograph corrections. 43 pages.
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TMs. 21 pages. Excerpted from Dreamtime?
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TMss. One draft and one carbon. 27 pages.
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TMs (carbon). 16 pages.
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TMs (carbon). One draft. 27 pages.
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TMss (carbon). Two drafts with autograph corrections. 17 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts with autograph corrections. 9 pages.
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For Rolling Stone. TMs. 32 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts with autograph corrections. 6 pages.
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TMss. Three drafts, one (carbon) entitled "For the Day Breaketh." Approximately 27 pages.
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TMss (Carbons). Two drafts. Approximately 26 pages.
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TMss. Four drafts, two with autograph corrections. Approximately 18 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. Excerpted from Dreamtime? 23 pages.
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TMs (Carbon). 8 pages.
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TMss. Multiple drafts and carbons, some with autograph corrections. Approximately 15 pages. Includes an unfinished letter dated December 6, 1961.
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TMss. Five drafts with autograph corrections. Approximately 13 pages.
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TMss. Three drafts (one carbon), one entitled "Room in Red.' Approximately 6 pages.
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Incomplete? AMs and TMs with autograph corrections. Approximately 20 pages.
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TMss. Five drafts with autograph corrections. 7 pages.
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Published in Pen, Spring 1959 (copy included). TMss. Multiple drafts and copies, most with autograph corrections. Some drafts entitled "A Flaming Cock, a Closing Eye." See also: "A Flaming Cock, a Closing Eye." Approximately 18 pages.
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TMss with autograph corrections. Two drafts, one entitled "A Mask for the Lonely." 26 pages.
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TMss and ANs. Five drafts and one carbon with autograph corrections. Approximately 27 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. 20 pages.
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TMs. 32 pages.
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TMs (carbon). 24 pages.
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TMs with autograph corrections. 8 pages.
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TMss. One draft and one carbon with autograph corrections. 28 pages.
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TMss. Multiple drafts and copies (one carbon), most with autograph corrections. One draft entitled "The Apostle of Freedom," another "The Visitor." Approximately 23 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts and one carbon with autograph corrections. Approximately 27 pages.
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TMss. Three drafts, two with autograph corrections, as well as incomplete revisions. Approximately 22 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one with autograph corrections. Approximately 24 pages.
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TMss. Numerous drafts and copies, most with autograph corrections. Approximately 29 pages.
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TMs. Two drafts. Excerpted from Dreamtime. 21 pages.
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Incomplete. AMs and TMs. Two drafts.
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Incomplete? TMs. A rough draft with extensive revisions laid in, possibly incomplete. Approximately 40 pages.
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TMs (carbon). 23 pages.
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TMss and AMs. Four drafts, one manuscript, and three with autograph corrections. 24 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one carbon with autograph corrections. Approximately 34 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts, one carbon. 20 pages.
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TMs. Three drafts, two with autograph corrections. 10 pages.
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TMss. One draft, one carbon. 24 pages.
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TMss. Two drafts with autograph corrections. 24 pages.
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This subseries consists of proposals and treatments for film, television, and publication projects spanning Hall's entire career. These materials are distinct from similar materials in Subseries 1F: Screenplays, Teleplays and Documentaries because they are completely unrealized projects, whereas those in Subseries 1F were substantially developed but never completed or produced.
A number of Hall's projects are directly related to topics and subjects the creator was researching and photographing for other related projects. Researchers should reference concurrent files for the full treatment of a subject. Most of the material is undated, and date ranges were assigned based on Hall's residency. The chronology for this residency is provided at the series level.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by working title.
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With Arnold Schwarzenegger. Developed concurrently with "Pumping Behind Bars" (screenplay).
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Included "No Man's Land" article.
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With Arnold Schwarzenegger. Includes notes and materials relating to several prison visits with Schwarzenegger. Developed concurrently with "Arnold's Art of Physical Display" (book proposal).
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Book about stock car racing possibly developed concurrently with Wheels of Fire.
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This series consists of photographic and manuscript material spanning Hall's entire career, from when he started experimenting with photography in 1965 until his death. Manuscripts, research, interviews, correspondence, working drafts, audio and visual materials in magnetic and optical formats, and reviews are also included with the project to which they correspond.
There are approximately 54,000 35mm black-and-white negatives (in 9,000 strips); 12,000 120mm black-and-white negatives (in 3,000 strips); and 30,000 positive color transparencies (slides) totaling at least 96,000 unique photographic images. Of these, approximately 1,715 images appear as production prints for published books, including (1,069) 11x17-inch prints; (616) 8x10-inch prints, and 30 prints of other smaller sizes. Most of these prints are marked and tagged for production by publishing companies. There are an additional (16) 16x20 inch prints of Los Matachines de Acalade.
There are contact sheets (positive prints made from pages of negatives) for most of the negatives present in the collection. Hall labeled almost all of his negatives and contact sheets to correspond by number so the contact sheets can and should be referenced as a guide to the original negatives. The color transparencies are unique and are not duplicated as contact sheets.
The materials have been arranged according to the publication or project for which they were photographed or compiled. Hall worked on many projects simultaneously and similar images may appear in both subseries. For example, Hall collaborated with Arnold Schwarzenegger on both Arnold: The Education of a Body Builder and Bodyshaping for Women, as well as being a personal friend. Therefore, photographs of Schwarzenegger appear in the files for both these publications plus a subject file located in Subseries 2A. Considerations of this kind should be made for any collaborator or topic that spanned many projects.
Correspondence files in this series relate to the project for which they were compiled, however, Series 3: General Correspondence may also include correspondence for projects listed here. Researchers should check both series for correspondence relating to specific projects.
These images, like their published counterparts in Subseries 2B: By Project were widely exhibited in Hall's lifetime, and usually well beyond the timeframe when they were taken.
This series is arranged into two subseries.
Physical Description80 boxes
This series consists of negatives, contact sheets, color transparencies (slides), manuscripts, research, interviews, correspondence, and reviews for Douglas Kent Hall's published photography books. Hall published fine art photography books, illustrated histories, and instructional manuals illustrated with photographs for demonstration.
Some series of photographs were used for more than publication, as is the case with the prison photographs used as source material for both In Prison and Prison Tattoos. Hall would also reprint images for exhibitions many years after they were initially photographed, as is the case with the Rock and Roll series initially created in the 1960s and 1970s, but reprinted in the 1990s and 2000s. For this reason contact sheets, negatives and transparencies are arranged with the first publication that they appeared in or were compiled for.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Physical Description65 boxes
Photography began in 1967 as part of a freelance promotional project for Sunn Amplification and lasted until 1970. Hall arranged the "Rock Star" negatives, contact sheets and transparencies by the name of the musician or band pictured, hence they are not numbered like the other photograph series. For this reason, bands and individuals have been listed at the file level, along with manuscript notations from the negative sleeves (which sometimes include venue information). Venues include: The Apollo, Fillmore East, Fillmore West, the Whisky a Go-Go, Café a Go-Go, The Pavilion, and Tanglewood.
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Includes correspondence and reprinted contact sheets for the exhibition Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience and the film 27. Model releases are photocopies.
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Includes a 45 rpm vinyl record from a 2007 exhibition.
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Includes 5 posters (23 x 29 and 10.5 x 14.5 inches) featuring Hall's images of Jimi Hendrix and The Who, and an additional 5 promotional items with unidentified musicians.
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One cassette tape. For The Superstars: In Their Own Words (1970), accompanied by a December 2005 letter from Bob Brennan (in Correspondence for 2005).
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"Jefferson Airplane at Tanglewood, August 1969; at the Fillmore"
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"Led Zeppelin, August 1969 at the Pavilion"
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"The Who, 1968; The Grateful Dead, Lonnie Mack, Holy Modal Rounders at Café a Go-Go; The Grateful Dead and Sha Na Na at the Fillmore"
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"Poco and The Chambers Brothers at the Pavilion, August 1969; The Fugs and Magic Fern in Seattle, 1968 February 10; B.B. King at Tanglewood"
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"Sonny Ship and Pacebrakers/Joe Simon at the Apollo; Impression at the Apollo, September 1969: Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles, The Coasters; John Sebastian, Bitter End! - September 1969; "Old Greek"
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"Smokey Robinson at the Apollo, August 1969; The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Byrds at Carnegie Hall, September 1969"
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"Country Joe and the Fish, September 1969"
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"Liverpool Pool Scene PGE"
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1 folder
Includes a contact sheet of images shot on Haight and Ashbury, San Francisco.
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2 folders
Photography began in 1973. This publication was developed concurrently with the novel Let Er Buck (1973) and the documentary Great American Cowboy (1973) and as a result many of the peripheral research files and materials can apply to any or all these projects. Disassociated "Cowboy Files" are located in Series 4: Miscellaneous and Unassociated Materials.
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Includes 11 photographic portraits of varying size of rodeo champions, provided by the Association of Professional Rodeo Cowboys.
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Two 8-track tapes, one 1/4 inch reel-to-reel demo. Manuscript song lyrics removed to Rodeo: Contract and Correspondence.
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Locations include San Francisco, Fresno, CA; Larry Mahan's rodeo school in Florida and Mesquite, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Denver, Colorado; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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3 folders
38 prints, 8x10 inches or smaller
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124 11x14 inch and 13 8x10 inch prints tagged with technical information and page numbers.
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Began photography in 1976 and published in 1977. Features the people and culture surrounding van modification and display in the 1970s.
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5 boxes
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Includes both professional and candid photographs of Schwarzenegger by other photographers, as well as professional photographs of Reg Park.
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Also titled "Arnold's Woman."
Physical Description6 boxes
Includes correspondence by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Conducted by Hall and Schwarzenegger.
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Conducted by Schwarzenegger.
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Includes notes by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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2 folders
Includes 3 x 5 inch prints.
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2 folders
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Includes casual photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu.
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Photography from 1979 to 1987.
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Includes manuscript notations with the names of male and female prisoners.
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One audio cassette. Sent from Tennessee Prison for Women.
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Includes images of Lisa Lyon.
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1 folder
1 folder
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(12) 8x10 prints; (105) 11x14 prints.
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6 boxes
1 folder
Includes draft text from "Dreamtime."
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1 folder
Includes images of Lisa Lyon beyond the publication of Bodyshaping, including images for the Tarot project and images of other male models.
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1 folder
(109) 8x10 prints.
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8 boxes
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2 folders
Includes manuscript notes by Lou Ferrigno.
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296 (8x10) prints, including a group portrait autographed by Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) in 1979. Not all images by Douglas Kent Hall; some images Copyright Universal Studios.
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17 (8x10) prints including one autographed by Lou Ferrigno to Douglas Kent Hall. Includes photographers Art Zeller and Robert Gardner.
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Photography began 1983.
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1 folder
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110 (11x17) and 2 (8x10) prints produced for publication.
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Photography from 1985-1986.
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1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
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Includes CD-ROM
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One audio microcassette. From envelope labeled "Theresa Chambers." Side A labeled "Presidio," Side B labeled Peter and Leticia Lewis.
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Hall was special photographer for the film Fool for Love directed by Robert Altman and starring Sam Shepard and Kim Basinger.
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2 folders
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Began principal photography in 1987.
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Publication and exhibit. Excerpt from digital documentation by Dawn Hall that accompanied the collection: This ongoing series started in the late 1960s when Douglas Kent Hall and Alfred Bush, Curator of Western Americana, Firestone Library, Princeton, traveled across country together. Alfred would drive, Douglas would photograph the people in cars as they sped by. The series encompasses photographs of walkers-by, and such. Some of the series is shot in New York City. Some of the series is photographs of clouds passing by. Some of the photographs appear in the book Passing Through, some in the book In New Mexico Light.
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1 folder
1 folder
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Working title: Espanola Book. Began assembling materials in 1989.
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1 folder
12 folders
1 folder
1 folder
Hall was special photographer for the film Roosters produced by WMG, starring Edward James Olmos and Sonia Braga.
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1 folder
Not written by Hall.
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1 folder
Hall was special photographer for the film Sirens produced by WMG, starring Elle McPherson and Sam Neill.
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1 folder
1 folder
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1 folder
For contact sheets and negatives SEE: In Prison (1988).
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1 folder
1 folder
Paperback published by St. Martin's Griffin. 96 pages.
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Began work in 1999.
Physical Description6 boxes
Includes correspondence with artists featured in the book.
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1 folder
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Paperback published by the Albuquerque Museum. 116 pages.
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Photography began in 1999.
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1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 box
1 folder
148 (11x14)
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Began compiling materials in 2001.
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Includes correspondence with Victor de Suvero.
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3 folders
4 folders
1 folder
Includes vintage prints of Hall's earliest work as well as prints of notable poets and writers: Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Allen Ginsberg, Andrei Voznesensky, Jeremy Brooks, William Stafford, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Mark Strand, Adrian Mitchell, W.S. Merwin; artists: Lee Kelly, Larry Bell; musicians: Charles Lloyd, Terry Allen. (67) 8x10 or smaller, (34) 11x14, (26) 5x7 or smaller, and (15) of irregular size.
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Began compiling materials in 2006.
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Includes correspondence with Sam Shepard and John Treadwell Nichols.
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1 folder
1 folder
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1 folder
Various sizes.
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(105) 11x14s, (12) 8x10s, (8) 5x7s.
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DVD
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This subseries consists of negatives, contact sheets, color transparencies (slides), manuscripts, research, interviews, correspondence and a few prints for Douglas Kent Hall's unpublished photography projects. The material spans Hall's entire career and most of the projects are thematically related to other concurrent projects or publications located through the rest of the collection. When known, those relationships are listed at the project level.
The projects included here are either collections of photographs with a thematic relationship compiled over many years, such as the Poets and Notable People project files; or projects intended for publication (complete with manuscripts) that were never published. The book Hall was working on at his death, "City Light: Douglas Kent Hall's New York," is essentially complete, but unpublished.
This subseries includes a number of identified portraits, most notably of artists and poets active in Hall's lifetime, such as Mark Strand, W. S. Merwin, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Anaïs Nin, Bruce Naumen, Dorothy Brett, Hunter S. Thompson, Carlos Fuentes, and Dennis Hopper. Other notable images include candid photographs of Ethel Kennedy on a ski trip in the 1970s, and Robert F. Kennedy speaking in May 1968. A number of identifications are listed at the folder and project level.
These images, like their published counterparts in Subseries 2A: By Publication / Film were widely exhibited in Hall's lifetime, and usually well beyond the timeframe when they were taken.
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Physical Description41 boxes
One of Hall's first creative photography projects begun in 1969 and never published as a distinct work, but notable for the development of Hall's idea of "Passing". Additional notes on sheets of negatives indicate locations, dates, dances, and individuals. Includes many Native American dances (Bear Dance, Corn Dance, Buffalo Dance), pueblos and people (Taos, Picuris, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Santa Clara), kachina house dolls.
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Includes letters written home during Passing Through.
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This file and its associated negatives were left in an unclear arrangement by the creator; these contact sheets do not represent all the associated negatives.
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Including portraits (known individuals: artist Allan Houser, Philip Houzous, and Bob Houzous), Indian rodeo, Indian market (pottery sellers).
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Contains images of notable people, mostly poets and writers, taken over Hall's entire career. For related prints, see: Visionary: Prints for Publication. These files are not limited to writers, and include images of artists and celebrity personalities as well. See also: Artists and Notable People.
Includes Marisa Berenson (model), Willie Nelson (musician), Robert Creeley, W. S. Merwin, Tony Hillerman, Paul Pletka (artist), Mark Strand, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Anaïs Nin, Dorothy Brett (artist), R. C. Gorman (artist), Frank Waters, James Purdy, Peter Matthiessen; John Hollander; Richard Williams, Gloria Emerson, Mink deVille (band), Stanley Moss, Carolyn Kizer, Diane Wakoski, Carlos Fuentes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Adrian Mitchell, Tony Connor, William Stafford, Galway Kinnell, Vern Rutsala, Eugene McCarthy, Henry Miller, Dick Bakken, Simie Maryles (artist), Andrea True (adult film star and singer), Adrian Henri, Gary Snyder, Kinky Friedman (singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician), Hunter S. Thompson, Meredith Price, Jeff Way (artist), Midge Mackenzie, Daniel Lang, Colette (Colette Justine)(artist)
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1 folder
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Marisa Berenson (model), Willie Nelson (musician), Robert Creeley (poet), W. S. Merwin (poet), Tony Hillerman (author), Paul Pletka (artist), Mark Strand (poet), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (poet), Anaïs Nin (author), Dorothy Brett (artist), R. C. Gorman (artist), Frank Waters (writer)
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Contains images of notable people, mostly fine artists, taken over Hall's entire career. For related prints, see: Visionary: Prints for Publication. These files are not limited to artists, and include writers and celebrity personalities as well. See also: Poets and Notable People.
Includes Alex Joseph, William Lumpkins (architect), Larry Mahan (cowboy/singer), Billy Kidd (skier) , Duane Zaloudek, Ethel Kennedy, Tony Hillerman (author), Agnes Martin, Florence Miller Pierce, Luis Jimenez, Melissa Zink, Elmer Schooley, Peter Rogers, Agueda Martinez, Marissa Fernandez, Unknown, Michael Hurd, Eric Orr, Bruce Naumen, Dennis Hopper, John Clem Clarke, Manuel Neri, Riva Yares, Terry Allen, Ed Moses, Larry Bell, Susan Rothenberg, Frank McCulloch, Dorothy Brett, Colette (Colette Justine), Edith Head (costume designer), Nathan Olivera, Charles Strong, Harold Joe Waldrum, Pat Lipsky, Ken Greenleaf, Fritz Scholder (Native American), Larry Rivers, Bill Gersh, Laddie John Dill, Ron Cooper, Aki Takahashi (musician), Marlene Zaloudek, Doug Lynch, Arnold Athens, Joe Mangive, Jun Kaneko, Leslie Marmon Silko (writer), Carl Morris, Lee Kelly, Daniel Lang, Margaret Tafoya, Kenneth Price, Eric Devon, Suzanne Peggy, Bob Wade, Rick Dillingham, Luis Jiménez, Henriette Wyeth, Hal Paris, Robert Kennedy (politician), Arnold Schwarzenegger, R. C. Gorman (Native American), Dennis Oppenheim, Joe Ely (musician), Tom Wesselmann, Carl Gliko, Robert Jordan (author), Peter Voulkos, Cleofes Ortiz (musician)
Physical Description6 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
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1 folder
Missing contact sheets 321-324, 326-334, 337-342, 346-349, and 353-361. Includes color transparencies of the avant-garde artist Colette.
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1 folder
Sheet A80 includes negatives of Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Portland in May 1968. The images do not appear on the corresponding contact sheet.
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Includes color negatives.
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1 folder
2 (8x10) prints; (2) 5x7 color prints.
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CD-R
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Began photography in 1975. Features cab drivers and dispatchers in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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1 folder
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(13) 8x10 prints; (142) 11x14 prints.
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6 boxes
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
1 folder
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Includes "Comanche Dance."
Physical Description5 folders
16 (16x20) silver gelatin prints in a boxed suite.
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Peripheral to Wheels of Fire.
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1 folder
1 folder
2 folders
Concurrent with Arnold: The Education of a Body Builder (1977) and Bodyshaping for Women (1979). Includes personal and candid photographs from a river rafting trip in Santa Monica, California with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver.
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1 folder
Includes images of artist LeRoy Neiman.
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John Milius
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8x10 inkjet print of a color photograph.
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Peripheral to photography on the film Sirens.
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Subjects include Candomblé priestesses, miners, mining, and the rainforest.
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1 folder
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2 folders
Includes four silver gelatin photographic prints made by Douglas Kent Hall in his darkroom, comprising individual and group portraits of Candomblé priestesses in Brazil.
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1 folder
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6 boxes
1 folder
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Two cassette tapes. One labeled "Boris Kipnis to Justin and Aniva," one with Russian notes, apparently the music of V. Barsegan.
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1 folder
1 folder
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Slides not by Douglas Kent Hall.
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The materials in this series appear to be compiled from prior projects (notably Working Cowboys (1984)) as well as photography begun in 1992 for an unpublished cowboy publication.
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1 folder
Separated from Working Cowboys contact sheets.
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1 folder
Color contact sheets. Original context unknown.
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1 folder
Includes color negatives and images of the Navajo Rodeo.
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Color negatives. Original context unknown.
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1 folder
Photography took place in 1994. Project to photograph Japanese Masters.
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1 folder
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1 folder
A collaboration with Terry Allen published by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1992. Also resulted in a series of lithographs called Positions on the Desert.
Physical Description2 boxes
Notes by Terry Allen. Includes a letter from Terry Allen dated 1989 December 8.
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1 folder
A project to photograph the Major Arcana with Lisa Lyon and other models. Negatives and contact sheets: SEE Bodymagic.
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Lisa Lyon
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1 folder
Includes images from the Graphite series.
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6 boxes
Includes correspondence with Suzan Shown Harjo and Floyd Hand (Looks For Buffalo).
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5 (8x10) prints.
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Photography began in 1999.
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
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1 folder
1 folder
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6 (8x10) prints.
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The photography in this series spans two decades and dates primarily to Hall's time living in New York City. Publication work began in 2004 and continued until the photographer's death.
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
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1 box
DVD
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DVD
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These include photographs Hall digitized that are duplicated elsewhere in the collection.
Original order was preserved.
Physical Description1534 digital files
305 digital files
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23 digital files
92 digital files
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11 digital files
11 digital files
18 digital files
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18 digital files
9 digital files
15 digital files
37 digital files
35 digital files
87 digital files
86 digital files
17 digital files
65 digital files
20 digital files
190 digital files
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41 digital files
75 digital files
208 digital files
61 digital files
60 digital files
3 digital files
84 digital files
23 digital files
72 digital files
17 digital files
32 digital files
63 digital files
14 digital files
235 digital files
65 digital files
63 digital files
55 digital files
52 digital files
15 digital files
32 digital files
71 digital files
13 digital files
34 digital files
35 digital files
20 digital files
81 digital files
This series consists of personal and business related correspondence that Hall kept separate from his project files (located by project elsewhere in the collection), with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s. Included are personal letters from family and friends as well as business correspondence with publishers, galleries, and independent collectors.
This series does contain correspondence that references projects and publications for which there are already separate correspondence files located elsewhere in the collection. For this reason, researchers seeking all correspondence relating to a specific project or publication should also reference these general files in the corresponding timeframe.
Correspondents of note include Adrian Mitchell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, William Stafford, Mark Strand, Alton Walpole, Larry Bell, and Terry Allen. Notes have been made at the file level for these and other names.
In addition to chronological files, Hall separated some material from the general files including three files of gallery-related correspondence and three personal files for Adrian Mitchell, William Stafford and Mark Strand, which are located towards the end of the series.
Some correspondence was undated, but context allowed for general dates to be assigned, as is the case with material thought to date from the early 1970s and therefore dated from 1970-1974. Undated correspondence from within a specific years or range of years is located at the back of the corresponding folder. Completely undated and disassociated correspondence is located toward the end of the series.
This series is arranged chronologically, and then by correspondent.
Physical Description4 boxes
Lee Kelly (sculptor), Benjamin Barney (Navajo dancer and educator), Adrian Mitchell, Arnold Schwarzenegger (with Blue Cross of California)
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1 folder
1 folder
Adrian Mitchell, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Lee Kelly, Adrian Mitchell
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1 folder
Terry Allen
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Dick Bakken, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Contains 8x10 print of Lisa Lyon
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Terry Allen, Howard Post (artist), Jerry Jeff Walker
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Terry Allen, Les Blank
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1 folder
Adrian Mitchell (with poem), Bill Richardson (William Blaine Richardson III), Douglas Johnson (1946-)
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Adrian Mitchell, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Includes a 1913 photographic postcard by W. H. Horne.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adrian Mitchell, Alton Walpole, Terry Allen.
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Includes color slides by an unknown abstract artist.
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1 folder
Alton Walpole
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1 folder
Adrian Mitchell
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Larry Bell (fax)
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1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Ralph Berkowitz (composer)
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Victor di Suvero (2001), Samuel Nichols (2003)
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Larry Bell (letter of recommendation, 2004), John Treadwell Nichols (letter of recommendation, 2004)
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1 folder
1 folder
Includes a poem by an unknown writer entitled "the Chess Player poem."
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Consisting of miscellaneous news articles and advertisements separated from correspondence.
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Includes business transactions and receipts relating to photographs, primarily galleries and dealers. Similar and related correspondence is located throughout the Chronological files.
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1 folder
1 folder
Includes materials relating to projects, poems, and ephemera. SEE: Correspondence by year for other files.
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Includes photographs and a poem by poet William Stafford (1914-1993) and one letter from Robert Bly.
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Includes a letter from artist Daniel Lang.
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Materials that cannot be positively attributed to any one of these concurrent projects: Let 'er Buck, Rodeo, or The Great American Cowboy.
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Includes reviews of two exhibitions of Douglas Kent Hall's photographs written by Wesley Pulkka and published in the Albuquerque Journal on December 12, 1999 and April 23, 2000.
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Separated contact sheets. Context unknown.
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Two microcassettes. Faded titles written on tapes, one of which reads "Lisa - Paris," likely referring to Lisa Lyon.
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Includes a résumé, career chronology, exhibition listing, and biographical summary current as of 2011.
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