Douglas Hall

Doug Hall has taken Michel Foucault’s idea of "the order of things" and investigated the power relationships that proscribe human behavior. His photographs accomplish this through a social organization of public and interior space (his nominal subject) and by the very nature of his camera lens (his means). Therefore, by using a large-format camera, Hall is able to create a contemplative relationship with the detail and form of the photo rather than a purely emotional one. Doug Hall will present his photographic series on watery tourist attractions, shot at California’s beaches, the poolsides of Las Vegas hotels, and Marine World.



Doug Hall is a photographer whose work is informed by anthropology and the seminal Bay Area art/media collectives, T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm. His work has been exhibited in museums in the US and Europe. Grants and fellowships include: NEA, The California Arts Council, the Fulbright Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hall has been Professor in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1981. He received The Gilmore D. Clarke & Michael Rapuano Rome Prize in Visual Arts, from The American Academy in Rome, where he was in residence for a year (1995/96).

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