Background
William Edward Barksdale was born on December 26, 1927 in Welch, West Virginia, United States.
William Edward Barksdale was born on December 26, 1927 in Welch, West Virginia, United States.
William Edward Barksdale received his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (1950), and a Certificate in Theology from Nashotah House, Wisconsin (1954).
William Barksdale has been associate professor and coordinator of photography at Mercer County Community College, New York, since 1968. From 1961 to 1968 he taught photography at Brooklyn College, Queens College and Southampton College and did freelance photography. Barksdale was an Episcopal priest from 1956 to 1960.