<div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://ti2.auctiva.com/sw/java.gif" border="0"><br><table align="center"><tr><td><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://emporium.auctiva.com/Repeatboutiquestore" target="_blank"><img src="http://ti2.auctiva.com/sw/browse1.gif" border="0"></a></td><td height="23px" valign="middle" align="center"><font face="arial" size="2"><b><a href="http://emporium.auctiva.com/Repeatboutiquestore" target="_blank">Repeatboutiquestore</a> Store</b></font></td></tr></table></div> RARE DOUGLAS KENT HALL "BAREBACK BRONCO RIDER" ORIGINAL SIGNED PRINT 1973-1974AUTHENTIC. Great Quality. ORIGINAL. COMES WITH ORIGINAL FRAME. SIGNED. Photos were professionally removed and mounted for photos of Signatures and provenance. Excellent conditionFRAME - 20.5" X 26" Douglas Kent Hall(December 12, 1938 – March 30, 2008) was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays. He was in high school when he first published a story, his first published photographs were ofJimi HendrixandJim Morrison, and his first exhibition of photographs was at theWhitney Museum of American Art.He published twenty-five books, including two withArnold Schwarzenegger. His photographs are ofrock and rollsuperstars,rodeo, cowboys, prison,flamenco, bodybuilders, theU.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 withLarry Bell,Bruce Nauman,Terry Allen, and his son Devon Hall.At the time of his sudden death in 2008, solo exhibitions of his photographs hung concurrently at theHarwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; the Riva Yares Gallery,Santa Fe, New Mexico; and theRoswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico. His bookIn New Mexico Lighthad just been selected for theEric Hoffer Award.Early career[edit]Hall's master of fine arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop in 1963 led to a position at theUniversity of Portlandteaching Creative Writing and Literature. Hall and Claire moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1964. During his time at the University of Portland, Hall brought many well-known poets to the school for readings, such asAllen Ginsberg,W. H. Auden,Anaïs Nin,Gary Snyder,Robert Duncan,William Stafford, andRobert Bly. Hall also became active in an organization calledAmerican Writers Against the Vietnam War. At this time a friend lent Hall a camera and he taught himself photography, seriously studying photographic technique and style. He photographed poets and the group of artists he befriended in Portland, including Lee Kelly, Duane Zaloudek,Carl Morris,Hilda Morris, Doug Lynch, among others.[1]Hall's method of teaching creative writing included taking his students on car trips, overseeing student film productions, and having students grade themselves. His 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 various other commercial and magazine photographic assignments. Hall 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.[1]Career as an independent writer and photographer[edit]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 ofRock: A World Bold as Love, released later in paperback asThe Superstars: In Their Own Words. In New York, Hall continued writing. He published his first novel,On the Way to the Sky, in 1972. This book fictionalized Hall's childhood years in Vernal, Utah, and his renegade Hall relatives.[1]While driving across the country with his college friend Alfred Bush in 1969 to photograph American Indians, returning to the West of his youth, Hall shot his first Passing series. In 1971 he developed the first negatives for Passing II. The idea of time and the photograph continued to deepen and became the guiding influence behind his total photographic output.[2]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. As they were moving in, comedian and filmmaker Christopher Guest was moving out. Of note, when Hall and Dawn moved out of the loft in 1976, the poet Mark Strand moved in.[1]In the 1970s Hall lived in New York but spent much time traveling. His work included writing a book about rodeo titledLet Er Buck; writing and codirecting a feature documentary film about rodeo titledThe Great American Cowboy, which won an Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary; and publishing a photography book titledRodeo, which was followed in the early 1980s by another book about cowboys, this one about ranch cowboys, titledWorking 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."[3]The 1970s also saw the publication of Hall's second novel,Rock and Roll Retreat Blues. Significantly, in 1974, Hall exhibited his photographs for the first time, at theWhitney Museum of American Artin New York. The exhibition and accompanying catalog,Photography in America, is where the public first viewed the now iconic photographMesquite, Texas.[4]During the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s, Hall worked on books collaboratively for the first time in his career. In 1975 Hall's literary agent, Bob Dattila, asked him if he would be interested in working on a project with the bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hall and Schwarzenegger published two books,Arnold: The Education of a BodybuilderandArnold's Bodyshaping for Women.Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilderwas on theNew York TimesBest Seller listfor eleven weeks in 1978.[5]In 2002,Sports Illustratedincluded the Hall/Schwarzenegger collaboration as number 71 on their "Top 100 Sports Books of All Time".[6]During the writing and photographing ofBodyshaping for Women, Hall started an acquaintance with the female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, which led to the publication of theirLisa Lyon's BodyMagic.The Incredible Lou Ferrigno, with bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, rounded out Hall's collaborative publishing ventures with bodybuilders.[1]In 1977 Hall and his partner Dawn moved from New York to the small village of Alcalde in northern 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 Douglas 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 Lineintroduced Hall to the varied types of people who live and work on both sides of the border. The book includes many color photographs. "In an ideal marriage of uncompromising photography and compelling prose, Hall transports us to 2,000 miles of borderland, revealing it in all its contradictory dimensions."[7]Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwestalso includes many color images. "Photographer-author Douglas Kent Hall takes us to the most celebrated churches as well as to the most obscure, including hauntingly evocative ruins in remote
