What is Peter Bacon Hales?
'''Peter Bacon Hales''' (November 13, 1950 &ndash; August 26, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] [[historian]], [[photographer]], [[writer]], and [[musician]]. His works were in [[United States|American]] [[Space (physics)|spaces]] and [[landscape]]s, the [[Photography|history of photography]], and [[contemporary art]]. His wrote six books including ''Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915'', and ''Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project''. He was a [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] (UIC) faculty member for 32 years, including four years as chair of his department ([[art history]]). He retired in 2012. Hales was born in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], [[California]]. He graduated from [[Haverford College]] in 1972. He was married to Maureen Pskowski. Hales died in a [[Car accident|road accident]] on August 26, 2014 near his home in [[Stone Ridge, New York|Stone Ridge]], [[New York]]. He was 63. He was killed when a car driver hit his [[bicycle]] .<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.uic.edu/long-time-art-history-professor-killed-in-bicycling-accident#sthash.Z8cJGDsd.dpuf|title=Long-time art history professor killed in bicycling accident|publisher=[[University of Illinois at Chicago]]|date=August 27, 2014|accessdate=August 29, 2014|first=Gary|last=Wisby}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{Official|http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hales, Peter Bacon}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American artists]] [[Category:Academics from California]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American photographers]] [[Category:Musicians from California]] [[Category:Musicians from Chicago]] [[Category:Musicians from New York (state)]] [[Category:People from Pasadena, California]] [[Category:Road accident deaths in New York (state)]] [[Category:Educators from Chicago]] [[Category:Academics from New York (state)]] {{US-bio-stub}}