Robert Dawson (photographer)

Robert Dawson (born 1950 in Sacramento) is an American photographer and instructor of photography at San Jose State University and Stanford University. He received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. Much of his photography has focused on California and its natural landscapes. In 2014, he published The Public Library, a book of photographs of public libraries across the United States taken over an eighteen-year period. He earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree from San Francisco State University. His work has been exhibited or held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Library of Congress.

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  • "Library of Congress Acquires Robert Dawson's Images of Public Libraries". Library of Congress. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  • Romanos, Carl (29 February 2012). "Art as activism". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  • Simon, Scott (12 April 2014). "Check It Out! A Photographic Tour Of America's Public Libraries". NPR. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  • Wander, Robin (23 April 2014). "Stanford photography instructor Robert Dawson named Guggenheim Fellow". Stanford University. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

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