Edmund Teske was an American

United States

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 photographer noted for his experimental techniques and work with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Teske taught at the New Bauhaus Institute of Design in Chicago alongside László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...

. In the late 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles and worked in the photographic still department at Paramount Pictures. There he exhibited his experimental work, which included duo-tone solarisation

Solarisation

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 and collage

Collage

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 techniques.

He was given a posthumous retrospective at the J. Paul Getty Museum

J. Paul Getty Museum

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in 2004.