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David R. Hanlon is a Missouri native and has been a practicing photographer for 25 years. The images he has created during this time have concentrated on the characteristics and issues of landscape, architecture and portraiture. From 1990 - 2001 Hanlon was the chief photographer of the archaeological excavation at Tell Tuneinir in Syria, displaying and having his work published in venues throughout the United States and the Middle East. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Kentucky Museum of Art, and numerous private collections.

Hanlon is presently the Chair of the Art Department at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and has taught at the college since 1990. A photographic historian, researcher and writer about early photography, Hanlon recently had an essay entitled "Souvenir de l'Orient: Leavitt Hunt's Album of Wonders" published in an exhibition catalogue produced by the Bennington Museum. In 2006 he organized and curatored two exhibitions, Russell Sturgis: Critic, Historian and Collector, and Of Spirit and Form: The Monuments of France in Photographs by Edouard Baldus and Médéric Mieusement, at the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis.

The works shown here include samples from a number of projects Hanlon has undertaken over the last 25 years. Included are samples from Ancient Monuments of Syria and Jordan (1990-2001), Evolutionary Maneuvers (1986-1988), and Origins (1998-2003). Most of the folios, on some level, address how people interact with each other and their environments and with the emotional/psychological properties of mortality and regenerative life. These explorations also attempt to utilize the unique components of photographic recording and printing material.

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