[7] Along with Robert Mapplethorpe, Sally Mann, and Nancy Honey, Dick Blau has been noted as one of the greatest modern photographers of children because his portraiture goes beyond "the stalling dichotomy of innocence versus corruption" (Libby Brooks, The Guardian).
Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia, Photographs by Dick Blau, Text by Charles and Angeliki Keil, Soundscape by Steven Feld.
Blau's black-and-white photographs of Romani residents of the village of Iraklia create an enthographic portrait of a Balkan community.
[14][15] Polka Happiness, a full-length study of Polish-American music and culture (co-authored by anthropologists Charles and Angeliki Keil) was published by Temple University Press in 1992.
This book explores the dance music of generations of Polish Americans and emphasizes the shared sense of belonging embodied in "polka sociability.
[23] He writes, "These pictures are spontaneous transcriptions of my experience, an ethnography of family life, a phenomenology of domestic emotion...By selecting a moment, then stilling and framing it, I try to retain some feeling of the event itself.