Bob Hower

Bob Hower is a Louisville photographer who was born in Boston in 1947. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1968 and studied photography at both MIT and Harvard.

He taught photography at Wright State University for four years and is a founding partner of Quadrant, a commercial photography studio located outside Louisville, Kentucky.

His career includes two grants from the Ohio Arts Council and an Individual Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a photographer for the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project during the mid-1970s, which was recently the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville.

His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The International Center of Photography, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Kentucky Historical Society, and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, among others. His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, OK Harris, The International Center of Photography, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the George Eastman House, The Speed Art Museum, 21c Museum, and the Frazier History Museum.

A pioneer in color fine art photography, Bob is best known for his large-format industrial landscapes and portraits.