I got this email from Bart de Malignon last week:
Northfield native and photographer Fran Hall died on Thursday, December 2 in Boulder, Colorado. There will be a memorial service in Boulder about a week before Christmas and a service in Northfield after Christmas. Details to be announced. Fran would have celebrated his 96th birthday on December 18 and was an active photographer of nature until the end of his life.
I first heard of Fran Hall when I was working on a blog post about Henry Fisk and Clark Webster showed me his photo of Henry Fisk, taken by Fran Hall back in 1960.
DailyCamera.com published a profile of Fran in June, 2010 titled: Fran Hall, 95-year-old photographer, has seen it all- Maggie Lee wrote about Fran in the July, 2010 issue of the Northfield News after she got a letter from him. See An interesting life.
- U of Colorado news, June 2, 1999: Welcome To The Wonderful World Of Insects – Photos By Fran Hall
- In the book Airstream: the history of the land yacht, there are Fran Hall photos, as he was the photographer for Airstream’s 1962 Around The World Caravan. Airstream profiled Fran in their Spring 2009 issue. And Fran directed a short movie about the trip titled Trailer Around the World.
Griff – thanks for pulling this all together. – Bart
I had the honor of meeting Fran a few times a couple years ago. What a great man. He was a true treasure. At NHS we are currently digitizing some of Fran’s work we have in our collection. It will be available through the Northfield History Collaborative very soon.
I met Fran where he had lived in Boulder and he was so interesting. I wish I could have spent more time with him.
Griff:
Here is a link to 116 images of Fran’s that we have in our collection. In a few weeks all 300 images of Fran’s we have will be online.
http://tinyurl.com/286hwmk
Wow, that’s great to have those photos of Fran Hall’s archived, Hayes. Thx!
The Memorial visitation for Fran Hall will be held at the Bierman Funeral Home from 3-6:00 pm on January 7.
Full obituary on Northfield.org:
http://northfield.org/bloggity/fran-hall
Another obit from Boulder, CO:
http://www.dailycamera.com/obits/ci_16856153
Reminder: the memorial for Fran Hall is today, 3-6 pm at Bierman’s.
Fran Hall was a friend of my mother’s, Bea (Thompson) Bodine, also from Northfield and took her wedding pictures in the late 1940’s. Mom and I went to see Fran in Boulder last summer. I’m sorry to hear that he has passed.
Fran and his wife, Tallie,were close friends back in the 40’s. I have wonderful memories of times we shared. He took our wedding pictures on 6-3-49. I will never forget him.