Edmund Teske
American Photographer · 1911–1996
34 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works

Abstract
Getty Museum · about 1960s

Arizona
Getty Museum · about 1970s

Bill Allard
Getty Museum · 1962

Cactus, Taliesin West, Arizona
Getty Museum · negative 1943; print 1960s

Carved Depiction of Crucifixion
Getty Museum · about 1943–1949

Chicago
Getty Museum · 1938
![[Dead Roses in Urn]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0502977d-2f52-4e94-9d0c-841a41776dc7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Dead Roses in Urn]
Getty Museum · 1973

Emily Forbes, Los Angeles, Calif.
Getty Museum · 1962

Indiana Sand Dunes, Lake Michigan
Getty Museum · 1935
![[Jane Lawrence Smith, Santa Monica, California]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a8f48750-2537-47d2-ab3b-0adac0373fb6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Jane Lawrence Smith, Santa Monica, California]
Getty Museum · about 1944; print 1993

John Saxon
Getty Museum · about 1960s

Kenneth Anger, Topanga Canyon, Composite with Gustave Doré Engraving
Getty Museum · 1954; print 1960s

Leaves on Glass, Topanga Canyon, California
Getty Museum · 1952; print 1960s

Lively Brushstrokes
Getty Museum · about 1943–1949

Male Nude, Davenport, Iowa, Composite with Landscape, Topanga Canyon
Getty Museum · 1942 and 1953; print 1973

Male Nude, Los Angeles, Composite with Tool Chest
Getty Museum · negatives 1944 and 1953; print 1961
![[Marc Rambeau]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ce7f110d-ede8-4377-ab73-a3d3fc6dbbc2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Marc Rambeau]
Getty Museum · 1962

Marjorie Eaton
Getty Museum · 1958; print 1960s

Marlene Stark
Getty Museum · 1960

Mineral Baths, Big Sur, California
Getty Museum · 1967

My Mother's Hands
Getty Museum · 1938
![[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c8ece5b0-e77d-44ff-9957-f821ffa44278/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]
Getty Museum · 1978
![[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/386966d9-8c73-4401-a8e2-faf71dac0aca/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]
Getty Museum · 1978
![[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c3676e86-1a20-420d-a5e6-b1ac6bef036a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Nils Vidstrand, Mono Lake]
Getty Museum · 1978

Palm Bark, Los Angeles
Getty Museum · 1962

Richard Soakup, Chicago
Getty Museum · 1940

Sieve in Deterioration
Getty Museum · 1939; print 1970s
![[Streaming Stream, Los Angeles]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/98d978f3-70c6-4dec-91f2-704bc9a293d2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Streaming Stream, Los Angeles]
Getty Museum · about 1970s

Ted Van Fossen and Jim Whitney, Altadena
Getty Museum · 1944–1945; print 1960s
![[Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Montrose, ca. 1890s, Composite with Mono Lake]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a2b79b06-a6be-4d3e-b89d-f7a6858ce6fd/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Montrose, ca. 1890s, Composite with Mono Lake]
Getty Museum · 1976

Tony Smith
Getty Museum · 1945
![[Tree Study, Olive Hill, Hollywood]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3caf0430-e7fb-448d-a333-2889046a5090/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Tree Study, Olive Hill, Hollywood]
Getty Museum · negative 1945; print 1960s

Tree Trunk, Indiana Sand Dunes
Getty Museum · 1934; print 1970s

Wallace and Shirley Berman
Getty Museum · 1955