Male Nude, Davenport, Iowa, Composite with Landscape, Topanga Canyon

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Male Nude, Davenport, Iowa, Composite with Landscape, Topanga Canyon

Creator

Edmund Teske

American Photographer · 1911–1996

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Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and music; when he graduated from high school, he built his own darkroom in the basement of the family home. In 1934 Teske took a position as an assistant in a commercial photographic studio in Chicago. He went

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Date
1942 and 1953; print 1973
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Study of male torso superimposed on landscape

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