James Rhem is an independent scholar in the history of photography and a well-known local arts critic. His publications include books on photographers Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Aaron Siskind as well as catalogue essays on Wynn Bullock, August Sander, William Eggleston and others. He has lectured on these and other topics at many college campuses in the U.S. and at the Prague House of Photography in the Czech Republic. For over twenty years, Rhem has been the Executive Editor of The National Teaching & Learning FORUM, a publication on college teaching which he created. Rhem knew and worked with Paul Vanderbilt on a profile abandoned following his untimely death.
