Clickers & Flickers Photography Network: Vitstrand Nils - Edmund Teske: Revealing the Intangible Reference

EDMUND TESKE: REVEALING THE INTANGIBLE REFERENCE
Presented By: NILS VIDSTRAND * Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009 * Time: 6:30 - 10 p.m. * Location: The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, CA 91501 MAP * Reservations: (626) 794-7447 (Required at least 5 days prior to the event)
Edmund Teske (1911-1996) was known as an individualist and pioneer of 20th Century American photography. The late Lee Witkin who exhibited and published Teske’s work in New York, heralded him as “one of the forgotten greats of American photography.” Nils Vidstrand of the Edmund Teske Archives, a commercial photographer for 25 years, and an award-winning fine art photographer, will present a digital selection of Teske’s life’s work. Teske dedicated his life to his art. His passion of expression was prevalent in his one-of-a kind photographs; his romantic and spiritual nature formed his approached as an imaginative, poetic, and innovative photographer. Teske produced exceptional images using revolutionary techniques, and darkroom experimentation. Some of his techniques were: solarization, duotone-solarization, multiple negative printing, positive/negative printing and making “rayograms” by projecting light through objects directly on paper and film, as well as straight single image warm-tone gelatin silver printing. Distinguished photographers who were contemporaries of Teske with whom he collaborated and befriended were Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Imogen Cunningham, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Bernice Abbott, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, and Minor White, to name a few. Although Teske had numerous exhibitions during his lifetime, a high point in his career was in 1993 when the J. Paul Getty Museum honored him with the exhibition Being and Becoming, acknowledging his contribution to American photographic history. In 2004, the Getty Center presented a retrospective exhibition Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske complete with gallery talks, lectures, film event and a hard and soft bound book. The show traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Nils Vidstrand was a student, model, assistant, and close friend of Edmund Teske for twenty years. Vidstrand states “Let all us Bohemians unite! Edmund was one of the last great Bohemians in Hollywood. Such an inspiring being, I am so fortunate to have known and worked with him for so many years! December 6-7, 2008 was the 32nd anniversary when I met him at his Photo Grab for the first time.
RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE C&F members: $49 at least (5) days in advance. $55 less than 5 days prior to the event. Non members: $59 at least (5) days in advance. $65 at the door, only if space is available.