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Peter Bacon Hales.

Born and raised in rural Connecticut, Peter Bacon Hales graduated from Haverford College.

He remained there for more than three decades before leaving in He has written a number of books and essays on American culture and its history. A string of collaborative projects followed, notably with the photographers Mark Klett and Bob Thall , and with the Art Institute of Chicago's centenary commemoration of the World's Columbian Exposition.

During that time, he also exhibited a series of documentary photography projects, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, the Chicago History Museum and other venues, and contributed to two major documentary projects-- Changing Chicago , and City As a professor, he crossed between the histories of architecture and urbanism and contemporary art history and the history of photography, and moved between the studio arts program and the art history department until the two were wedded as the School of Art and Art History during his time as chair of the art history department.

His website Looking at America is a response to the international alumni of the American Studies Institute which he directed for seventeen years under the auspices of the U. Department of State.

William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape by Hales, Peter Bacon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles.

Today he lives in the Hudson Valley of New York, where he writes, photographs and makes music. Curriculum Vitae. View on Mobile.