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Drake Anthony Hokanson was born on December 17, 1951, in Cherokee, Iowa, United States; the son of Mong V. (Beck) Hokanson.
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Drake Anthony Hokanson was born on December 17, 1951, in Cherokee, Iowa, United States; the son of Mong V. (Beck) Hokanson.
Hokanson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1977, as well as his Master of Arts degree in 1988.
Hokanson began to serve at the University of Iowa at the position of a photojournalist and manager of Photography Unit at Office of Public Information for 8 years from 1974. Hokanson became an instructor there in 1982, holding that post for 2 years. He was a lecturer in journalism and mass communication at that educational institution from 1984 till 1988. After that, he taught at the Lakeland College, the Winona State University, the City University of London and the University of Nebraska. In addition, Hokanson was a guest lecturer at such educational institutions as the University of California in Davis, the University of Wisconsin, the Iowa Wesleyan College and the Iowa State University.
In 1997 Hokanson was selected as a photographer for the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotographic Project, which culminated in the publication of Wisconsin Then and Now.
Hokanson worked as an editor of the series “The Road and American Culture” of the Johns Hopkins University Press. He was also a contributor of articles, photographs and reviews to periodicals, including the Time, the Newsweek, the People, the Earth, the Americana, the Photographer’s Forum, the Smithsonian and the Iowan.
Hokanson also conducted researches on American county fairs and on Great Plains life and culture.
Now Hokanson teaches at the Winona State University as an assistant professor in mass communication and writes books. He has been involved with photography professionally since his first exhibition in 1970. Since that time he has exhibited from Connecticut to California, with a score of one-man shows in art museums, historical and cultural museums and private galleries. His black and white photographs are of ordinary things and places conditioned by human use.
Hokanson has received grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Iowa Arts Council. He has participated in several recent group exhibitions including the "Wisconsin Triennial" at the Madison Arts Center and "Beyond the Perimeter" at the Minnesota Center for Photography.
Hokanson won the Adult Editors’ Choice Award from the Booklist in 1988, for his Lincoln Highway: Main Street across America.
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Quotations: “While I have traveled a great deal, my photographic subjects come only from North America. You have to know what you photograph, and photograph what you know. Otherwise you make only tourist pictures.”
Hokanson is a member of the American Studies Association and a member of the board of directors of the Lincoln Highway Association.
Hokanson married Carol A. Kratz on August 18, 1979.
