Photographs by Edmund Teske

Spanning 20 years of the artist’s career, this exhibition was the first solo show for the photographer Edmund Teske (1911–1996). The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York lent photographs from their collections. The 42 photographs were divided into five categories based on their technique: standard photography, solarization, duotone solarization, multiple image and negative image. Teske championed many of the experimental techniques, which often combined multiple images onto a single print or reversed the tonality of the image. Following its close at the Pasadena Art Museum, the exhibition traveled to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.