Douglas Kent Hall

"Photographer, writer, award-winning filmmaker, and poet Douglas Kent Hall is one of the great documentarians of his generation. His photographs of mainstream and counterculture subjects include rock music icons, bodybuilders and prison inmates, cowboys and countercultural heroes. At center is his exploration of the modern American West and the heart that beats there--sometimes violently, often poetically. For over thirty years Hall has photographed...

The Espanola Valley, in direct line of sight from Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch and the inspiration for many of her paintings, contains several of the oldest towns on the continent, including the twelfth-century Tewa pueblo known as Ohke, renamed San Juan de los Caballeros by the first territorial governor of New Mexico. Ancient Indian pueblos, visited by Spaniards before the pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock, are today inhabited by descendants...