Robert Dawson was born in
Sacramento in 1950. He received a
2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. Much of his photography has focused on
California and its natural landscapes. In 2014, he published
The Public Library, a book of photographs of
public libraries across the United States taken over an eighteen-year period. He earned a BA from the
University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree from
San Francisco State University. His work has been exhibited or held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the
Museum of Modern Art, the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the
Library of Congress. ==References==