Bill Rauhauser: 20th Century Photography in Detroit
Bill Rauhauser – 20th Century Photography is the most complete survey on the 98-year-old photographer to date and covers decades from the 1930s until the present. Bill Rauhauser has spent a lifetime quietly chronicling the heart and soul of Detroit. From his poetic recording of his family life and the urban landscape to his surprising tabletop conceptual artworks, Rauhauser’s image making has always been stamped with its clarity, gentle beauty and refined composition.
Large format 11×9″ hardcover 300+ images, a beautifully printed and lavish book sure to please Detroit watchers and lovers of urban photography.
Bill Rauhauser, born in Detroit in 1918, received a bachelor degree in Architectural Engineering in 1943 from the University of Detroit. He spent 18 years in the engineering field before a career change into the field of education. Over the next 30 years, Rauhauser taught photography at The Center for Creative Studies (now College for Creative Studies), with 1 year as guest lecturer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and 4 years at Wayne State University. He was appointed Professor Emeritus by CCS and was an Artist Advisor for the Board of Directors of the Dept. of Prints, Drawings and Photographs of the Detroit Institute of Arts. He is listed in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The many exhibitions of his work include “The Family of Man” show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Rauhauser has made Detroit his main subject, walking its streets and alleys with his camera from the 1940s, and many of his photographs are in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Book publications of his photographs include: “Beauty on the Streets of Detroit” (2008); “Detroit Auto Show Images of the 1970s” (2007); “Bob-Lo Revisited” (2003); and “Detroit Revisited” (2000). He has also co-curated a number of exhibitions for the Detroit Institute of Arts, including “The Car and the Camera” in 1996. He died in 2017 a few months from his 99th year birthday.
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