Background
Richard Alan Lawson was born on April 10, 1946, in Moline, Illinois, United States.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Richard studied at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, United States.
1263 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
Richard studied at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, United States.
1263 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
In 1977 Richard was a visiting assistant professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, United States.
Richard was a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Richard Alan Lawson was born on April 10, 1946, in Moline, Illinois, United States.
In 1974 Lawson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in photography from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. In 1976 he received a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, United States.
In 1971 Richard worked as a lab technician at Gamma Photo Labs in Chicago, Illinois, the United States. In a year he was a lab technician for Color- prints (Film Division) in Chicago, Illinois, the United States.
Since 1977 Richard has been a visiting assistant professor of photography in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, United States.
Also, working in experimental color, his photography deals with man-made symbols, social landscape, and ironic humor. He has also conducted research on "The Preservation, Printing, Exhibition, and Publication of Historical Negatives from Illinois Prisons."
Richard's mentors being Art Sinsabaugh, Robert Flick, and Luther Smith.