Background
Donald Arthur Doll was born on July 15, 1937 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
(Fifty years of award-winning photography is celebrated in...)
Fifty years of award-winning photography is celebrated in A Call to Vision: A Jesuit’s Perspective on the World, the final book in the Vision series by Jesuit photographer Don Doll, S.J. The book covers 50 years of Fr. Doll’s work and details the story of his ‘vocation within a vocation’ as a Jesuit photographer, including his early work with Native Americans, a series on hospice care, and recent photographs of Jesuits working around the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Vision-Jesuits-Perspective-World/dp/0578109964/?tag=2022091-20
Donald Arthur Doll was born on July 15, 1937 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Donald Doll earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (1961) and an Master of Arts in Psychology (1962).
In 1962, as an earnest young Jesuit from Milwaukee, "Father Don" began to teach seventh and eighth-grade students at the St. Francis Mission School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota, which then, was a boarding school.
Seven years later, in 1969, Donald Doll transferred to Creighton University (Omaha) where he hoped to teach photography. But he was told he would have to teach psychology because no funds were available for a darkroom. Since he regarded the teaching of psychology as boring, he said he'd rather leave the university to pursue a master of fine arts in photography. But then, funds were found, he stayed, and he has since served as a professor of journalism in the Charles and Mary Heider Jesuit Chair.
In 1974, while on sabbatical, Donald Doll returned to the Rosebud settlement of Spring Creek (population 175) where he photographed the people during their daily lives, which resulted in his first book, A Call to Vision (1976). The previous year's American Indian Movement occupation of the Wounded Knee settlement (also in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) remained vivid in people's memories, which spurred Donald Doll to produce provocative images that revealed his affection for the people and their comfort with him.
(Fifty years of award-winning photography is celebrated in...)
Kaltag High School’s prom king and queen, who are Athabaskan, and half of the graduating class, took to the dance floor.
Grandmother Therchik, a Yupik Eskimo, enjoyed a moment with her grandchildren.
Beau Big Crow competed as a dancer at powwows around the Midwest. He is originally from Oglala, S.D. The word for powwow came from an Algonquin word for a gathering of medicine men and spiritual leaders in a curing ceremony - pauau.
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