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Dick Blau
Dick Blau is an artist and a major figure producing and theorizing photography of the family.
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Education
Blau holds a BA in English from Harvard University (1965) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (1973). He is a Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Career
Blau’s photographs and films have been exhibited internationally and are included in a number of museum collections. His interests include psychological portraiture, experimental narrative, ethnography and performance art.
Personal Life
Dick Blau was born in 1943. His mother is actress Beatrice Manley, and his father is theater director Herbert Blau. His longterm partner is Jane Gallop, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Together they have two children, Max and Ruby.
Books
His books include Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia, Photographs by Dick Blau, Text by Charles and Angeliki Keil, Soundscape by Steven Feld (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), and Polka Happiness (Temple University Press Visual Studies Series, 1992), which he co-authored with Charles and Angeliki Keil. The book explores the dance music of generations of Polish Americans and emphasizes the shared sense of belonging embodied in "polka sociability." In 2003, Blau published a book of photographs of his family: Living With His Camera, Text by Jane Gallop/Photographs by Dick Blau (Duke University Press).
Films
Some of Blau's films include Up the Block One Sunday (1982), Tintinnabula (1986), and Jidyll (1990), all of which were distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco, California.
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Categories:- American photographers
- Harvard University alumni
- Yale University alumni
- 1943 births
- People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
- Living people
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