Untitled 1940s-50s Untitled Shiva composite with Shirley Berman and Madison Grammar School Demolition, 1977 New York, 1939 Gertrude Teske composite Hollyhock House of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1974
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Edmund Rudolph Teske (March 7, 1911 – November 22, 1996) 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. His use of techniques like: combined prints, montages and solarizations led to “often romantic and mysterious images”. Although he exhibited extensively and was well-known within artistic photography circles during his lifetime, his work was not widely known by the public. He has been called “one of the forgotten greats of American photography
Bill Allard, Vicky Palermo composite with Poppy, 1964
Belgian Underground (Two sides of 1940s magazine page of girl’s face), 1960s
Olga Teske Schultz composite Mt. Whitney, 1975