Background
Jonathan S. Blair was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
Jonathan S. Blair was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
Blair studied at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1961-63), then (1965) earned a BFA in Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.
Since 1968 Blair has been a contract photographer for National Geographic Society, and since 1979 has been a guest lecturer at Maine Photographic Workshop. He also lectured in 1979 at the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, and at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. In 1963 he was a park photographer at Yosemite National Park and a staff photographer at Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University.