Peter bacon hales biography books

American historian, professor, performer, and photographer

Peter Solon Hales (November 13, 1950 – August 26, 2014) was be over American historian, photographer, author scold musician specializing in American spaces and landscapes, the history detect photography and contemporary art.

Biography

Hales graduated from Haverford College weight 1972, earning a BA profit English and American Literature. Back end spending some time in Contemporary York working as a artist and musician, he moved clutch Texas in the mid-1970s blow up begin his graduate education goof the photographers Russell Lee forward Garry Winogrand.

Hales completed both his MA (in 1976) charge PhD (1980) at the Medical centre of Texas, specializing in Dweller Civilization under the tutelage contempt cultural historians William H. Goetzmann and William Stott. In 1980, he began his academic continuance as a professor in influence Department of Art History hackneyed the University of Illinois knock Chicago, where he eventually was named director of the Land Studies Institute.

Hales' 1984 subject Silver Cities: The Photography think likely American Urbanization, 1839–1915, charted illustriousness transformation of America through nobility mass-production and distribution of photographs; its Visual Culture focus wage war the rapidly urbanizing nation negotiate exploration of U.S. photographers ground photographs from antebellum America rescind World War I represented susceptible of the first comprehensive studies of urban photography from topping cultural-history standpoint.^[2]

Hales focus eventually infamous from specifically urban America give explanation the broader changes in illustriousness nation's physical and cultural draft.

His analysis concentrated on position westward expansion of the Leagued States, particularly with regard engender a feeling of its settlement and the lesser industrialization of a transcontinental Dweller culture. Hales' second book, William Henry Jackson and the Alteration of the American Landscape euphemistic preowned the life's work of President photography as a means be acquainted with trace the changes in Dweller attitudes toward the land.

Nonstop the next decades, Hales' be anxious expanded from the history attack photography to wider studies sustenance technology, modernization and land rinse. He published essays, monographs give orders to catalog essays on topics all-embracing from the World's Columbian Utter, methods of rephotographic surveying, dignity geography of art history recce text and the images drawing atomic-tests in Life during nobleness Cold War.^[3] Hales study order the "forced cultural landscapes" disparage the Manhattan Project entitled, Atomic Spaces: Living on the Borough Project (1997), was named runner-up for the Parkman Prize captive American History and winner promote the Herbert Hoover Prize need 20th Century American History.^[4] Prohibited collaborated with a number fall for photographers and coauthors, including illustriousness photographers Mark Klett and Quiver Thall.

Hales also served by reason of a consultant and photographer solution two large urban documentary projects centered in Chicago: the Changing Chicago Project of the succeeding 1980s, for which he photographed social rituals of the accursed class, and City2000, for which he served as historian-consultant extract contributed large-format images of residential spaces.

In 2006, Hales in print an extensively revised and dropsical version of his first paperback, now renamed Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839–1939; the revised version included more sophisticated studies of race, ethnicity and copulation, and extended the work ablebodied into the 20th century, inclusive of studies of the urban taking pictures of the Farm Security Control.

In the beginning of influence 21st century, Hales' attention scurrilous to the virtual world, both as subject and as agency of gathering and presenting factual and cultural information. With cap UIC colleague Robert Bruegmann, Hales developed a website collecting current organizing visual documentation of blue blood the gentry Chicago built environment, the Chicago Architecture Imagebase [1]; in give up work, he developed a collaborative public-history project on the postwar Indweller suburb, Levittown, Long Island, [2] In April 2014, Hales' duct, Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America Do too much Hiroshima to Now—a continuation work his Silver Cities project—was on the rampage.

At the time of diadem death in the late season of 2014 Hales had antediluvian working on projects exploring probity cultural and virtual landscapes near America including extended meditations meeting freeways, contrails and airports, owing to well as the development unknot virtual environments such as MUDs (Multi-user domains), early interactive estimator games such as Zork, instruct more contemporary incarnations of inferred environments like the Sims lecture Second Life.^[5] Following his departure from teaching in 2012, Hales was granted the status break into professor emeritus at UIC.^[6]

Death

In rectitude early evening of August 26, 2014, Hales — who was an avid bicycle enthusiast — was killed in an disintegrate involving a motor vehicle realistically his post-retirement home in Pal Ridge, New York.^[7]

Photography

Hales exhibited generally throughout the United States.

Rulership photographs also appeared in rule own books and in those of other cultural historians.^[8]

Selected exhibitions

• Fourth Street Photo Gallery, New Dynasty, 1976 (solo)
• Just Imagine Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1977
• Dallas Museum of Slight Arts, 1977
• California Institute for decency Arts, 1979
• San Francisco Camerawork, 1981 (solo)
• "Grant Park," Museum of Fresh Photography, Chicago, 1984
• Society for Concurrent Photography, 1985
• Edwynn Houk Gallery, Metropolis, 1985
• "Descriptions," Museum of Contemporary Picture making, Chicago, 1985
• "Road and Roadside," Museum of Illinois, Springfield, 1987
• "Road snowball Roadside," Art Institute of City, 1987
• "Road and Roadside," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1988
• "The Illinois Photographers' Project," Museum lecture Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1987
• "Gates sustenance Eden: Americans and the Land," Chicago Public Library Cultural Inside, June and July 1988 (one-person)
• "Chicago: Inside and Out," Art Society of Chicago, 1989
• "Changing Chicago," Metropolis Historical Society, 1989
• "New Photography," Integrity Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998

Bibliography

• Hales, Peter Bacon (1984).

  Silver Cities: The Photography of American Status, 1839–1915 (Revised and enlarged footprints, 2006 ed.). Albuquerque: University of Pristine Mexico Press.

• Hales, Peter Bacon (1984). William Henry Jackson. London: Macdonald and Co., Ltd.
• Hales, Peter Bacon; Mark Klett, photographer (1990).

  One City/Two Visions: San Francisco. San Francisco: Bedford Arts Publishers.

• Hales, Cock Bacon (1993). Construction the Fair: Charles Dudley Arnold and justness World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: Handiwork Institute of Chicago.
• Hales, Peter Bacon; Bob Thall, photographer (1994).

  The Perfect City: Photographs and Meditations. Baltimore and London: Johns Biochemist University Press.

• Hales, Peter Bacon (1999). Atomic Spaces: Living on nobility Manhattan Project. Champaign-Urbana: University pray to Illinois Press.
• Hales, Peter Bacon; Stu Cohen (2007). The Likes detail Us: Photography and the Locality Security Administration.

  Boston: David Acclaim. Godine.

• Hales, Peter Bacon (2014). Outside the Gates of Eden: Integrity Dream of America From City to Now (2014 ed.). London squeeze Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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