Video: The 95-year-old photographer wins an award for retro street shots of Detroit
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For today's youth, photography is akin to a fashionable hobby - accessible and simple. Few for whom it becomes a matter of life, many "burn out" or are carried away by something else. Today we will talk about Bill Rauhauser, A 95-year-old photographer who has spent 60 years of his life with a camera in his hands.
Bill Rauhauser has lived in Detroit his entire life, and over the years has taken countless pictures of scenes from the everyday life of Americans. For his contribution to the development of the culture of his hometown, he received the 2014 Kresge Eminent Artist Award. After attending the official ceremony, Bill Rauhauser admitted that this award really touched him.
Bill Rauhauser's black-and-white photographs from the 1950s to the 1970s are regularly exhibited at the country's largest galleries, notably the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington). They are now on display at the Karl Hammer Gallery in Chicago.
Richard Rogers, President of the College of Creative Research, commenting on the award for Bill Rauhauser, stressed that he is one of the greatest photographers of our time, who still has not received universal recognition. He also noted that, despite the fact that the photographer worked exclusively in Detroit, he managed to capture the beauty and nobility of modern life in general.
Bill Rauhauser himself shared the secret of his creative success: “For many years I just walked the streets of Detroit, watching and expecting that something great was about to happen. And I liked every minute I lived."
By the way, on the website Kulturologiya. RF we talked about the work of another photographer, Paul Almasy, who recently presented retro photographs of Paris, also taken in the middle of the 20th century.
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