Background
David Leigh Rathbun was born on February 28, 1943, in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Harlan Edwin Rathbun and Josephine Irene Arnett.
Wheaton College
Princeton Theological Seminary
Teachers College, Columbia University (TC)
David Leigh Rathbun was born on February 28, 1943, in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Harlan Edwin Rathbun and Josephine Irene Arnett.
David Rathbun earned a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and later studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey (1966-1967), and Columbia Teachers College, New York City (1967-1968).
David Rathbun served an apprenticeship to photographer Eliot Porter in Tesuque, New Mexico, from 1970 to 1975. Since 1975 he has been an assistant professor of photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago. David Rathbun worked for the Norman Kurshan Color Lab in New York City in 1969-1970 and did freelance commercial photography in New York City in 1967-1969.
Using color exclusively, the photographer works with a view camera and prints with the dye transfer process. His main concern is the effect of color upon visual perception.