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Professional Photographer and Historian
William Neumann is a professional photographer and author of historic narratives. "Bill" or "Billy" bases his photographic business William Neumann Photography around the northern New Jersey / New York City region. His photographic experience is extensive in the fields of executive portraiture, commercial real estate, special events and illustrative concepts. His main website www.NeumannPhoto.com shows a large variation of his award winning commercial and personal work. His photographs have been utilized in all types of printed and electronic media for Editorial, Advertising, Corporate Communications, Public Relations, and B2B usage. His main studio is located in the NYC Photo District www.TazStudios.com.

Photographic Historian
Neumann is a noted Photographic Historian who provides preservation work on all types of capture media including metal plates, glass plates, sheet films, roll films and photographic prints. He also does pro-bono photography for Habitat for Humanity International, Paterson Habitat for Humanity, Public Radio, Public Libraries, and the Borough of Rutherford, NJ. He has taught a specialized photography workshop for School of Visual Arts (NYC) for 20 years that is know as “How to Assist Professional Photographers” It is the only course of its kind in the United States.

Historian and Historic Preservationist
William Neumann is also a Historian and Historic Preservationist. He is the author of Rutherford: A Brief History (published December 2008 by The History Press) that recounts the 350 yr history of the area known today as Rutherford, New Jersey in the southern part of Bergen County. The book is the only comprehensive, stand-alone, indexed history of the Borough of Rutherford. As an author he writes historic narratives and technical articles such as his recent historic biography of Robert Erskine “Minemaster and Mapmaker for the American Revolution” to be included in the second volume of The Revolutionary War in Bergen County to be published by History Press in 2009. He has authored newspaper articles, book reviews and weblogs on many historic and preservation subjects. He is a member of the Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board, Board of Directors of Paterson Habitat for Humanity, a five year (former) Chairman of the Rutherford Historic Preservation Commission and the Meadowlands Art Advisory Board.

Lifelong Rutherford, NJ Resident
Neumann is a lifelong resident of Rutherford and maintains a website on its history www.RutherfordHistory.com. As a photographer, he maintains the largest private collection of contemporary and historic images of the Borough of Rutherford, NJ. He has lived all his life in the West End of Rutherford, NJ in a 130 yr old farmhouse that has had an active garden or farm for its entire history. For more than six months of the year he sleeps outside on his porch.