Talk:Edmund Teske

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Edmund Teske (b. 1911 Chicago, d. 1996 Los Angeles) was an American photographer noed for his experimental techniques and work with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Edmund Teske received his first camera around 1920 and built his own darkroom in the basement of the family home when he graduated high school. In 1936 he went to Wisconsin he took up the first fellowship in photography to be conducted under the guidance of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He went on to tech at the New Bauhaus Institute of Design in Chicago, alongside László Moholy-Nagy.

He relocated to Los Angeles in the late 1940's and worked at Paramount Pictures in the photographic still department. In LA he exhibited his experimental work that utilized a solarization technique to reverse highlight and shadow. After 1960 he frequently used his older negatives, reinterpreting them through the use of experimental printing techniques.

He was given a posthumous retrospective at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2004.

References

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/teske/