Robert Darryl "Bob" Mader (January 3, 1943 – November 4, 2005) was an American photographer. James Yood of the Art Institute of Chicago said that Mader would be "remembered and prized as a major portraitist of the late 20th century" Photography career Mader's professional career began in 1962. While he was a student at Wheaton College, Illinois, the school hired him to document a University of Chicago archaeological dig in Jordan. In 1967, he worked in Mexico City as a freelance photographer and journalist. A journey to a remote town in Mexico called Tlacotepec propelled him to return to photography. In the following years, he worked on a street photography project and documented the "Detroit Annie" bus trip from Chicago to California. His photography for Earth Magazine, included coverage of the bands at the Fillmore in San Francisco and photographs of Bill Graham. In 1969, he became a photographer for the University of Illinois Circle Campus. In 1971, he studied film at the Art Institute of Chicago and his Masters in Photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. The program, the legacy of emigre artists such as László Moholy-Nagy, was considered the "New Bauhaus". In 1975, he studied at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas and spent time with E.O. Goldbeck, the father of circuit camera photography (panoramic imaging). In 1978, he taught in the University of Texas at Dallas photography program. He opened his commercial studio and embarked on the portrait photography career for which he ultimately became known. He particularly established a reputation for taking his subjects out of the studio into unusual locations which reflected their individual character or story. In the 1980s, Mader developed a reputation for what he called "Femme Vitale" which won him an appearance on the Phil Donahue Show. "It predated the whole glamour shot movement," according to his son. Introduced to holography in 1970 by Dr Dan Sandin at IIT, Mader was among the first to make holographic images of families. In 1990, Frederick Quellmalz, president of The Photographic Art and Science Foundation, introduced Mader as "the greatest family photographer of this century." During his last years, he produced a series of thoughtful landscapes. His last photograph was signed on November 2, 2005. But it wasn't until after his death that the family discovered vast archives of work from his early years: a gritty, humanist and, at times, shocking, documentary