Edmund Rudolph Teske was a 20th-century American photographer who combined a career of taking portraits of artists, musicians and entertainers with a prolific output of experimental photography.
16 Facts About Edmund Teske
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In 1921 his family moved back to Chicago, and Edmund Teske began to study music, primarily the piano and saxophone.
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At Wright's invitation Edmund Teske created a photographic workshop within Taliesin to artistically document Wright's many architectural projects and to explore new relationships between architecture and photography.
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Edmund Teske taught briefly with Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, and in 1939 he worked as an assistant in Abbott's studio in New York.
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Edmund Teske was introduced to the photographs of Man Ray, which inspired him to create his own images containing positive and negative elements.
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In early 1943 Edmund Teske was able to leave his position at Rock Island, and compelled by the thought of a new way of life and the rising romantic allure of Hollywood, he decided to move to Los Angeles.
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Edmund Teske started working in the photographic still department at Paramount Pictures, and he quickly inserted himself into the growing artistic and bohemian movement in the city.
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Edmund Teske intended him to be caretaker for the property, but with her indulgence he soon assumed a much larger role.
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Edmund Teske started hosting informal parties and artistic gatherings in the rambling spaces of his new home.
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Edmund Teske soon embraced the philosophy, in part because its teachings provided a grounding for how he already viewed life and in part because Isherwood and his friends were already part of the growing gay community in the city.
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Edmund Teske was fascinated with the Vedanta ideas that all aspects of life and nature are connected and that time exists only as it relates to other moments in a large universe.
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In 1949 Edmund Teske left Olive Hill and moved to a small studio in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles.
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Edmund Teske launched into a series of creative photographic experiments in which he both manipulated and combined multiple images to create "new pictorial realities".
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Edmund Teske met and sometimes taught with many of the important photographers of the time, including Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Wynn Bullock, Jack Welpott, and Judy Dater.
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Around 1990 Edmund Teske embarked on assembling a comprehensive autobiographical collection of his work.
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Edmund Teske was living by himself in downtown Los Angeles when he died in his bed on November 22,1996.