Ron Wohlauer
American, 1948 - 2004
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BiographyWohlauer was a Colorado native, born in 1947 in the small town of Akron. He grew up in Denver as part of a prominent Jewish family. Though he became interested in photography while still a youngster, he pursued an academic career in history, earning a bachelor's and a master's degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder and working toward a doctorate at Cambridge University in England. In the early '70s, he started to work seriously in photography and received an M.A. in the subject from the University of Oregon while also studying with Brett Weston in California. The influence of Weston and his father, Edward, is easy to recognize in Wohlauer's pieces.