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Amish buggy going down road, Arthur, Illinois

With over thirty years as a professional photographer, Raymond Bial has built an impressive file of more than 20,000 color slides, 3,000 medium-format color transparencies, and 2,500 black-and-white photographs. Blending documentary and lyrical elements, these stock images include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, architectural work, and other types of photography in which Raymond is quite versatile.

His distinctive photographs emphasize farming, agriculture and rural life in the United States and Canada, the, Amish, and many other subjects. He has many photographs of ethnic groups, Native Americans, social and cultural history, and other historical subjects, including frontier life, the Shakers, the Underground Railroad, and many other categories. His work is widely used by major publishers for both textbooks and trade titles, in major advertising campaigns and national magazines, and by organizations such as PBS. Raymond Bial Photography is a participant in AGPix Live and PhotoSource.

It is important to Raymond to provide good value in his work, including his stock photography. Photo buyers seem to be very pleased with the depth, breadth and quality of his files.

In the future this web site will be featuring stock images to aid in your searches. Check back in the coming months, or send us an e-mail to notify you when available. In the meantime, the following links provide descriptions of many of the subjects for which Raymond has extensive files.

Native Americans / American Indians
Farming, Agriculture, and Rural Life
Amish
Ghost Towns, Cowboy Towns, and the American West
American Frontier and Pioneer Life
American History
American Ethnic and Cultural Groups
American Scenics
Stock Files with Extensive Coverage
Complete Stock List

Contact Raymond if you have particular stock photography needs.

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