NAME: Rein Nomm
BIRTH PLACE: Augsburg Germany
BIOGRAPHY
I am an artist and visual explorer who uses the camera to capture new and often experimental visual ideas. My work has evolved from recording the beauty and variety of the external world as it presented itself to creating my own photographic subjects, as evidenced in my recent ÃÆÃââââ¬Ã
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¡ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâàseries. My work embodies the stylistic undercurrents of Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, Conceptual Art and Minimalism; as well as reflecting my Northern European roots and the influences of a formal graduate education in art history and philosophy.
My photographs have been displayed or published by a variety of organizations including: the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the BBC Collective Gallery; Boletin del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico (PH 60) in Seville, Spain; Green Hills Literary Lantern, Detroit Free Press, File Magazine, Flak Photo, the permanent collection of the Meteor Photo Gallery, and the Agitatto Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, which also represents my work throughout Europe.
I have been honing my photographic skills and aesthetic sense for over 35 years. I have worked as a professional photographer, off and on, for the past 18 years, undertaking assignments as diverse as architectural photography, executive portraits, special events and product packaging. I also have taught art history, philosophy and logic at various colleges and universities in Michigan and was chairman of the Humanities department at Duns Scotus College in the 1970s. I have two Masters degrees, one in Humanities and the other in Philosophy from Wayne State University.
I was born in a displaced persons (DP) camp in Augsburg, Germany of Estonian parents, and I immigrated to the United States in 1950. I grew up in Detroit and currently live in Plymouth, Michigan with my wife.
