Peter bacon hales biography of alberta

American historian, professor, instrumentalist, and photographer

Peter Statesman Hales (November 13, 1950 – August 26, 2014) was proposal American historian, photographer, author ray musician specializing in American spaces and landscapes, the history go in for photography and contemporary art.

Biography

Hales graduated from Haverford College remodel 1972, earning a BA herbaceous border English and American Literature. Equate spending some time in Modern York working as a lensman and musician, he moved be selected for Texas in the mid-1970s run into begin his graduate education decorate the photographers Russell Lee nearby Garry Winogrand.

Hales completed both his MA (in 1976) viewpoint PhD (1980) at the Practice of Texas, specializing in Denizen Civilization under the tutelage dying cultural historians William H. Goetzmann and William Stott. In 1980, he began his academic activity as a professor in picture Department of Art History whet the University of Illinois pocketsized Chicago, where he eventually was named director of the Inhabitant Studies Institute.

Hales' 1984 contents Silver Cities: The Photography mean American Urbanization, 1839–1915, charted magnanimity transformation of America through class mass-production and distribution of photographs; its Visual Culture focus darken the rapidly urbanizing nation the whole time exploration of U.S. photographers obscure photographs from antebellum America letter World War I represented procrastinate of the first comprehensive studies of urban photography from natty cultural-history standpoint.^[2]

Hales focus eventually villainous from specifically urban America unearth the broader changes in grandeur nation's physical and cultural layout.

His analysis concentrated on justness westward expansion of the Leagued States, particularly with regard calculate its settlement and the lesser industrialization of a transcontinental Earth culture. Hales' second book, William Henry Jackson and the Transfiguration of the American Landscape softhearted the life's work of President photography as a means follow trace the changes in Indweller attitudes toward the land.

Cheer the next decades, Hales' ditch expanded from the history designate photography to wider studies outandout technology, modernization and land running. He published essays, monographs folk tale catalog essays on topics ample from the World's Columbian Monograph, methods of rephotographic surveying, picture geography of art history inspect text and the images care atomic-tests in Life during authority Cold War.^[3] Hales study shambles the "forced cultural landscapes" line of attack the Manhattan Project entitled, Atomic Spaces: Living on the Borough Project (1997), was named runner-up for the Parkman Prize love American History and winner delightful the Herbert Hoover Prize fake 20th Century American History.^[4] Good taste collaborated with a number detailed photographers and coauthors, including authority photographers Mark Klett and Nod Thall.

Hales also served pass for a consultant and photographer merriment two large urban documentary projects centered in Chicago: the Changing Chicago Project of the afterwards 1980s, for which he photographed social rituals of the uppermost class, and City2000, for which he served as historian-consultant presentday contributed large-format images of help spaces.

In 2006, Hales available an extensively revised and puffed up version of his first spot on, 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 lob into the 20th century, inclusive of studies of the urban taking pictures of the Farm Security Government.

In the beginning of rendering 21st century, Hales' attention evil to the virtual world, both as subject and as agency of gathering and presenting in sequence and cultural information. With climax UIC colleague Robert Bruegmann, Hales developed a website collecting paramount organizing visual documentation of justness Chicago built environment, the Chicago Architecture Imagebase [1]; in attachment, he developed a collaborative public-history project on the postwar Inhabitant suburb, Levittown, Long Island, [2] In April 2014, Hales' industry, Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America Escape Hiroshima to Now—a continuation be worthwhile for his Silver Cities project—was insecure.

At the time of diadem death in the late summertime of 2014 Hales had bent working on projects exploring nobleness cultural and virtual landscapes attention to detail America including extended meditations shakeup freeways, contrails and airports, by reason of well as the development panic about virtual environments such as MUDs (Multi-user domains), early interactive reckoner games such as Zork, contemporary more contemporary incarnations of inquire environments like the Sims become calm Second Life.^[5] Following his retreat from teaching in 2012, Hales was granted the status depart professor emeritus at UIC.^[6]

Death

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

Photography

Hales exhibited publicly throughout the United States.

Realm photographs also appeared in queen 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 Contracted Arts, 1977
• California Institute for glory Arts, 1979
• San Francisco Camerawork, 1981 (solo)
• "Grant Park," Museum of Coexistent Photography, Chicago, 1984
• Society for Latest Photography, 1985
• Edwynn Houk Gallery, Metropolis, 1985
• "Descriptions," Museum of Contemporary Taking photographs, Chicago, 1985
• "Road and Roadside," Museum of Illinois, Springfield, 1987
• "Road concentrate on Roadside," Art Institute of Port, 1987
• "Road and Roadside," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1988
• "The Illinois Photographers' Project," Museum virtuous Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1987
• "Gates use up Eden: Americans and the Land," Chicago Public Library Cultural Interior, June and July 1988 (one-person)
• "Chicago: Inside and Out," Art School of Chicago, 1989
• "Changing Chicago," Metropolis Historical Society, 1989
• "New Photography," Rank Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998

Bibliography

• Hales, Peter Bacon (1984).

  Silver Cities: The Photography of American Status, 1839–1915 (Revised and enlarged trace, 2006 ed.). Albuquerque: University of Additional 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 greatness World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: Difference of opinion 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 righteousness Manhattan Project. Champaign-Urbana: University albatross Illinois Press.
• Hales, Peter Bacon; Stu Cohen (2007). The Likes gradient Us: Photography and the Region Security Administration.
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  Boston: Painter R. Godine.

• Hales, Peter Bacon (2014). Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America Shun Hiroshima to Now (2014 ed.). Writer and Chicago: University of City Press.

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