Douglas Kent Hall

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Douglas Kent Hall
Born	(1938-12-12)December 12, 1938 Vernal, Utah, U.S.
Died	March 30, 2008(2008-03-30) (aged 69) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation	Writer photographer
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.