Born: 1950

Educated:

• Hopkins Grammar School
• Haverford College-- BA Honors in English and Writing
• American Studies Department, Art Department, University of Texas at Austin-- M.A. Photography and American Studies
• American Civilization Program, University of Texas at Austin-- Ph.D. American Civilization

Employed:

Musician, 1962-present

• Jealous Mourning Singers
• Bim Easton Band
• John Kromer Blues Band
• Tammany
• Bite Me the Band
• Ancient Mojo Peoples

Photographer, 1973-Present

• UPI New York Wire Desk
• Austin Sun
• Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship
• photographer, Changing Chicago
• photographer, editor, consultant City2000
• photographs exhibited in various art and historical museums in US and abroad
• photographs published in various books, magazines, newspapers, academic journals, both as "art" and as documentation

Writer, 1973-Present

• music and architectural criticism, Austin Sun
• editor and principal contributor, Darkroom Photography Magazine
• writing in various newspapers, magazines and journals
• collaboration with photographers: Mark Klett, for One City/Two Visions: San Francisco Muybridge/Klett Bob Thall, for The Perfect City
• writing in various academic journals, including Artjournal, The Art Bulletin, Reviews in American History, The Journal of Urban History, American Studies, Bulletin of the Allen Art Museum
• Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (1984)
• William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape (1988)
• Constructing the Fair: Charles Dudley Arnold and the Photography of the World's Columbian Exposition (1993)
• Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project (19997)
• Silver Cities: American Photographs of the Urban Experience, 1839-1939 (2005)
• Outside the Gates: Episodes in the Changing American Cultural Landscape, 1946-2001 (2005)
• Freeways, Now (2006)

Teacher, 1980-Present

• Assistant Professor,Department of American Studies, California State University Fullerton (1980)
• Assistant, Associate Professor, History of Architecture and Art Department, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle(1980-1988)
• Professor, Art History Department, The University of Illinois, Chicago (1988-Present)
• Visiting Professor, Art History Department, Northwestern University (1994)
• Visiting Artist, Photography Department, Columbia College, Chicago (1999-Present)