Bruce Harkness holds an MFA from Wayne State University and is the former city photographer of Dearborn, Michigan. His photographs have been published in Detroit Images: Photographs of the Renaissance City, Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, and Before Fair Lane: Historic Houses from Henry Ford’s Hometown, Dearborn, Michigan (1832–1916), as well as in the Detroit Free Press. He and his photographs recently appeared in the 2021 documentary film Taking Poletown: A Community’s Fight Over Economic Justice and Eminent Domain and in a 2018 WXYZ-TV news segment, “Remembering Poletown: Bruce Harkness Shares the Untold History with Photos.” The Bruce L. Harkness Poletown Collection of prints and digital images is housed in the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. Historians, filmmakers, and urban planners often use Harkness’s photographs as valuable reference material.
