Career
Blau is a professor of film in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His photographs and films have been exhibited internationally and are included in a number of museum collections.
His interests include portraiture, family dynamics, music and dance, gesture, ritual, and celebration.
Although Blau is best known for his work as a visual ethnographer, his photographic portraits of domestic life have appeared in the art tabloid Theory/Flesh; a 2009 Intervalles issue on Interdisciplinary Transcriptions; and the edited collection The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2011). Along with Robert Mapplethorpe, Sally Mann, and Nancy Honey, Dick Blau has been noted as one of the greatest modern photographers of children because his portraiture goes beyond "the stalling dichotomy of innocence versus corruption" (Libby Brooks, The Guardian). (See Also: Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet, Thames and Hudson, 1998).
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