Although Blau is best known for his work as a visual ethnographer, his photographic portraits of domestic life have appeared in the art tabloid "Theory/Flesh"; a 2009 "Intervalles" issue on Interdisciplinary Transcriptions; and the edited collection "The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art" (Demeter Press, 2011). 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"). (See Also: "Pictures of Innocence" by Anne Higonnet, Thames and Hudson, 1998).