Theater of the Jane Adams Hull House, 1933–1934.
Received a fellowship for and taught at Frank Lloyd
Wright’s Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1936–1937;
taught at the Institute of Design, Chicago, under La ́szlo ́
Moholy-Nagy, and assistant at Katharine Kuh Gallery,
1937–1938; employed by Federal Arts Project, Chicago,
1939–1940; taught Chouinard Art Institute, Los Ange-
les, 1962–1964; University of California at Los Angeles,
1965–1970; California State University at Los Angeles,
1979; and Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, 1974.
Worked as a commercial photographer in Chicago, 1934–
1936, and as a portrait and industrial photographer in Los
Angeles, 1944–50. Involved in aerial mapping while em-
ployed by U.S. Engineers, Rock Island Arsenal, Rock
Island, Illinois, 1941–1943; Moved to Los Angeles, 1943.
Introduced to Vedanta, a branch of Hinduism, 1945.
Actor in film,Lust for Life, 1956. Received Certificate of
Recognition from the Photographic Society of America,
1969; National Endowment for the Arts Photographer’s
Fellowship, 1975.Individual Exhibitions
1961 Pasadena Art Museum; Pasadena, California
1963SanFranciscoMuseumofArt;San Francisco,California
1970 Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
1971 International Museum of Photography, George East-
man House; Rochester, New York
Witkin Gallery; New York, New York
1974 Focus Gallery; San Francisco, California
1975 Friends of Photography; Carmel, California
1976 Susan Spiritus Gallery; Newport Beach, California
1977 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester, New York
1986 50 Year Retrospective Exhibition; Vision Gallery, San
Francisco, California
2003 Barry Singer Gallery; Petaluma, California
Group Exhibitions
1960 Sense of Abstraction; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1962 Contemporary Photographs; University of California
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1973 Light and Substance; University of New Mexico, Albu-
querque, New Mexico
1975 24 From L.A.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, California
1979 A Survey of the Nude in Photography; Witkin Gallery,
New York, New York
1981 Photographer as Printmaker; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull,
Yorkshire, England, and traveling
1984 Photography in California, 1945–1980; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, and
traveling
1987 Photography and Art 1946–1986; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CaliforniaSelected Works
Street Car, Chicago, c. 1938
Model with Potted Plant, New York City(solarization), 1939
Photo Studio, South State Street, Chicago, 1940
Mother and Child, South Chicago 1938 (Republic Steel Mill
Strike and Massacre)(duotone solarization), c. mid-late
1940s
Woman of Flame(solarization), 1941
Untitled (Emulsion Drawing of Head), 1943
Jane Lawrence, 1945
Kenneth Anger Overlaid with Gustave Dore, 1952
Kenneth Anger, Topanga Canyon, 1954
Jeffrey Harris-Shiva (Brooklyn Bridge), mid-1970s
Jeffrey Harris Composite with Mono Lake, 1975
Duotone Solarization, 1980Further Reading
Coleman, A.D. ‘‘Edmund Teske.’’Contemporary Photogra-
phers. Edited by C. Naylor. Chicago: St. James, 1988.
Cox, Julian. ‘‘Edmund Teske Memory and Synthesis.’’His-
tory of Photographyvol. 19, no. 1, (Spring 1995).
Larsen, Susan.The Oral History Collections of the Archives
of American Art: Interview with Edmund Teske. 1981,
Microfilm No. 3199.
Marable, Darwin. ‘‘Introduction and Interview with Ed-
mund Teske.’’Photo Metro6:59 (May 1988).
Untitled 22: Images From Within, The Photographs of
Edmund Teske. Carmel: Friends of Photography, 1980.
Witkin, Lee D., and Barbara London.The Photograph Col-
lector’s Guide. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.GEORGE TICE
American
George A. Tice finds the monumental in the com-
monplace. Primarily self-taught as a photographer,
his career spans more than 50 years, and his inter-
ests in documenting the American landscape have
led him to numerous towns and cities across the
United States. Whether he is documenting the sub-
urbs of New Jersey, the Amish and Mennonite
communities in rural Pennsylvania, or the naturalTICE, GEORGE