Joe Deal

Joseph Maurice Deal (August 12, 1947 – June 18, 2010) was an American photographer who specialized in depicting how the landscape was transformed by people.

Early life and education Deal was born in Topeka, Kansas on August 12, 1947, and was raised in Albany, Missouri and Saint Paul, Minnesota. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After his graduation in 1970, he was designated as a conscientious objector by the local draft board and was assigned to work as a guard and janitor at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and its museum of photography. He later earned a master's degree in photography and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico.

Career While working on his thesis for his MFA degree in the 1970s, Deal started teaching at the University of California, Riverside, where he helped establish the California Museum of Photography. In 1989, he became dean of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. He was named to serve as provost of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1999, and lived there for the remainder of his life.

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