Art from the archive, made present.
Hale began collecting vintage prints and photographs around 2000. In 2006, after opening a gift shop in Palm Springs, he began selling colorized historic photographs and found a way to bring a different kind of presence to old images.
His work centers on real photo postcards, street scenes, and images of American life from the 1930s through the 1950s. A Masters in Library Science and a doctoral degree from UCLA in Information Studies gave his visual practice a deeper research framework.
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