Finding aid for the Edmund Teske papers, 1933-1996 2005.M.10

Emmabeth Nanol
Special Collections
2010
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Edmund Teske papers
Creator: Herms, George, 1935-
Creator: Teske, Edmund, 1911-1996
Creator: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Creator: Tafel, Edgar
Creator: Berman, Wallace, 1926-1976
Creator: White, Minor
Creator: Weston, Edward, 1886-1958
Creator: Alexander, Bob
Creator: Strand, Paul, 1890-1976
Creator: Barnsdall, Aline, 1882-1946
Identifier/Call Number: 2005.M.10
Physical Description: 21.6 Linear Feet (36 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1933-1996
Abstract: The papers document Edmund Teske's life and work as a photographer, poet and teacher. Materials include correspondence informative of Teske's relationships with his family, colleagues and critics; poetry and writings about photography and philosophy; exhibition materials; newspaper clippings and journal articles; teaching files; interview recordings and transcripts; and photographic materials.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English.

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Processing History

Sheila Prospero initially processed the archive in 2005. Emmabeth Nanol further processed and arranged the archive and wrote the finding aid in 2009-2010 under the supervision of Andra Darlington.

Preferred Citation

Edmund Teske papers, 1933-1996, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2005.M.10
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2005m10

Acquisition

Acquired in 2005 from Lawrence Bump and Nils Vidstrand.

Separated Materials note

A complete edition of Semina 5 has been transferred to the library's core collection and can be found in the library catalog. 

Scope and Content of Collection

The papers provide both an overview of, and unique insight into Teske's creative processes, influences and relationships. In Series I, correspondents include Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Strand, Edgar Tafel, and Aline Barnsdall. Of particular note are fourteen letters from Minor White, in which he provides an in-depth assessment of Teske's aesthetic development. Teske's correspondence also chronicles his interactions with museums and galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, and the Witkin Gallery. Series I also includes personal documents, sketches and ephemera.
Professional files in Series II relate to Teske's exhibitions from 1960 to 1995, his photo-grabs in the 1970s, and his teaching and speaking engagements from 1960 to 1991. Materials include exhibition ephemera, correspondence, loan agreements, newspaper clippings, course catalogs, enrollment lists and workshop ephemera.
Series III contains writings by Teske, recordings and transcripts of interviews, and writings and artworks by others. Among Teske's writings are poetry from 1940 to 1980, a six-volume draft of his autobiography, and essays on photography written between 1939 and the 1970s. Interviews date primarily to the 1970s and 1980s. Among the published and unpublished writings and artworks by other artists are materials by Edward Weston, Bob Alexander, mail art from Wallace Berman, and invitations to George Herms's Tap City Circus events.

Arrangement

Organized in three series: Series I. Correspondence and personal files, 1933-1996, undated; Series II. Professional files, 1958-1996, undated; Series III. Writings, interviews and artworks, 1933-1993, undated.

Biographical/ Historical Note

Edmund Teske was an American photographer, poet and teacher who gained prominence through his work photographing the Taliesin Fellowship of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Chicago in 1911, Teske studied art, acting and set design. A primarily self-taught photographer, he had his first formal photography exhibition at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, in 1933. While employed at a commercial photography studio in Chicago, he was exposed to the work of a number of prominent contemporary photographers and artists, including Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Anton Bruehl, Man Ray, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
In 1936 Teske visited Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin workshop in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and was invited to become a member of the Fellowship. While there, he set up his first photographic studio and was instrumental in chronicling some of Wright's early buildings. Teske taught briefly at the New Bauhaus School of Design in Chicago, and also worked for a time with Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz's anti-fascist company, Frontier Films. During World War II, Teske performed aerial mapping for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1943 he traveled to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West Studio in Scottsdale, Arizona, once more photographing the Fellowship.
Teske moved to Los Angeles in 1943, where he initially worked as a still photographer for Paramount Pictures. He became a close friend and assistant to Aline Barnsdall, for whom Frank Lloyd Wright had completed three structures including Olive Hill Studio Residence B where Teske lived. In 1949, after Residence B was slated for demolition, Teske moved to Topanga Canyon. Among his friends and associates were Minor White, Aaron Siskind, George Herms, sculptor Tony Smith and his actress wife Jane Lawrence, and Richard DeMille, son of movie director Cecil B. DeMille.
In 1958 Teske developed the technique of duotone solarization, a method that reversed highlight and shadow, which became characteristic of much of his work. Teske's work has been exhibited widely at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pasadena Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Ceeje Gallery in Los Angeles. He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles (now the California Institute for the Arts) and other institutions. In the 1970s and 1980s Teske also became known for his "photo-grabs," which were informal auctions of his work in his studio to friends, associates and former students. Teske died in 1996.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Photography, Artistic
Videotapes
Audiocassettes
Sound recordings
Videocassettes
Audiotapes
Motion pictures (visual works)
Teske, Edmund, 1911-1996

 

Correspondence and personal files, Series I. 1933-1996, undated

Physical Description: 7.4 Linear Feet (16 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Demonstrating Teske's interests in the theatre, politics and religion and his relationship with his family, colleagues and critics, materials include business and personal letters, financial documents, health and employment records, sketches and ephemera. Individual correspondents include Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Strand, Edgar Tafel, Minor White and Aline Barnsdall, among others.

Arrangement

Arranged in two subseries: Series I.A. Personal files; Series I.B. Correspondence.
 

Personal files, Series I.A. 1933-1995

Physical Description: 2.7 Linear Feet (5 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged in rough chronological order.
box 1, folder 1

Legal documents, 1933-1970

Scope and Contents

Includes a handwritten list of Teske's residences, business cards and a photograph of Edmund Teske.
box 1, folder 2

War documents and employment chronology, 1934-1944

box 1, folder 3

Theater and acting, 1936-1956

box 1, folder 4

Ted Shawn, 1936

 

Calendars and address books, 1939-1983, undated

box 1, folder 5-7

1939-1962

box 2, folder 1-5

1964-1983

Scope and Contents

Includes a completed pre-registration form for the 1978 Society for Photographic Education National Conference.
box 2, folder 6

Handwritten miscellaneous addresses

box 2, folder 7

Hull House Theater, 1940

box 2, folder 8

Blackroom notes and booklets, 1948

box 3, folder 1-2

Vedanta Society, 1950-1975

Scope and Contents

Includes Teske's Certificate of Ordination as a Minister of The Temple of Man.
box 3, folder 3

Landlord communications, 1953-1995

box 3, folder 4

Film (underground) / tv, 1970-1983

Scope and Contents

Includes some handwritten poems; KOCE film incorporating 41 photographs: "The Photographic Vision;" and Lighthouse Communications "Photoprofiles," Parts I and II.
box 3, folder 5

Books to read, undated

box 3, folder 6

Drawings, undated

 

Miscellaneous, 1938, 1983-1984, undated

box 3, folder 7

Papers, 1983-1984

box 35*, folder 1

"Italian-Americans," 1938 Mar 17

box 4

Green scrapbook, 1939

 

Correspondence, Series I.B. 1933-1996, undated

Physical Description: 4.7 Linear Feet (13 boxes)

Arrangement

Folders labeled with individual names or subjects are arranged alphabetically, followed by assorted letters arranged chronologically with undated letters at the end.
box 5, folder 1

Barnsdall, Aline, 1944-1948

box 5, folder 2

De Mille, Richard, 1954-1996

box 5, folder 3

Devine, David, 1974-1984

box 5, folder 4

Friends of Photography, 1981-1983

box 5, folder 5

Frontier Films, 1939-1958

box 5, folder 6

Geer, Will, 1954-1955

box 5, folder 7

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1941-1962

box 5, folder 8

Lawrence, Jane, 1943-1992

box 5, folder 9

Leite, George, 1947-1948

 

Meyer, Harvey, Gertrude and Judy, 1939-1996

box 5, folder 10-11

Papers

box 36

Color photographs

box 6, folder 1

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1941

box 6, folder 2-3

Museum of Modern Art, 1959-1988

box 6, folder 4

Naef, Weston, 1974, undated

box 6, folder 5

National Endowment for the Arts, 1974-1976

box 6, folder 6

Rice, Leland, 1967-1988

box 6, folder 7

Smith, Tony, 1962-1967

box 6, folder 8

Tafel, Edgar, 1980-1991

 

Taliesin, 1936-1987, undated

box 6, folder 9

Masselink, Eugene, 1936-1942

box 6, folder 10

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1937-1946

box 7, folder 1

Mailer design and letter, 1954, undated

box 7, folder 2-5

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, 1979-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes generic letter of solicitation by Teske.
box 7, folder 6-10

Newsletter, bulletins and brochures, 1939-1994

box 7, folder 6

Hollyhock House, 1983-1986, undated

box 7, folder 7-8

Taliesin, 1985-1994

box 7, folder 9-10

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1939-1994

box 7, folder 11

Newspaper clippings sent by Stel, 1985-1991

 

Teske, Lou, Stel and Loretta, 1939-1952

box 8, folder 1-3

Papers

box 36

Color photographic material

 

Teske, Olga, 1936-1962

box 9, folder 1

1933-1939

box 9, folder 2-10

1940-1947

box 10, folder 1-2

1948-1949

box 10, folder 3-8

1950-1955

box 11, folder 1-4

1956-1959

 

1960's, 1960-1963

box 11, folder 5-7

Papers

box 36

Color photograph

box 12, folder 1

Wagstaff, John, 1976-1979

box 12, folder 2

Welpott, Jack, 1970

box 12, folder 3-4

White, Minor, 1960-1966

box 12, folder 5

Whitney, Jim, 1951-1963

Scope and Contents

Includes two mail artworks and an essay titled, "Towards Being Choicelessly Aware: The Immanent World of James Whitney."
box 12, folder 6

WPA- Federal Projects, 1939

 

Assorted, 1933-1994

box 12, folder 7-9

1933-1939

box 13, folder 1-3

1940-1949

 

1950-1959

box 13, folder 4-5

Papers

box 36

Negative

box 14, folder 1

1960-1965

box 14, folder 2

1970-1979

 

1980-1989

box 14, folder 3

Papers, 1981-1989

box 35*, folder 2

Letter from George Herms, 1985 Oct. 4

box 36

Color photographs, 1984

 

1990-1994

box 14, folder 4

Papers

box 36

Color photograph

 

Undated

Scope and Contents

Contains Christmas cards and Teske's draft letters.
box 14, folder 5

Papers

box 36

Color photographic material

 

Professional files, Series II. 1958-1996

Physical Description: 2.8 Linear Feet (7 boxes)

Arrangement

Organized in two subseries: II.A. Exhibitions; II.B. Teaching and speaking engagements.

Scope and Contents

Comprised of invitations, loan agreements, newspaper clippings, letters and notes relating to Teske's exhibitions; correspondence and newspaper articles relating to photo-grabs; and teaching materials including course catalogs, class lists and workshop invitations.
 

Exhibitions and photo-grabs, Series II.A. 1960-1996

Physical Description: 2.4 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
box 15, folder 1

The Sense of Abstraction in Contemporary Photograph (Feb. 16 - Apr. 10, 1960), 1960

Scope and Contents

At Museum of Modern Art, New York. Includes installation shots.
box 15, folder 2

Photography as a Fine Art (June 1961), 1961

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the Carl Siembab Gallery.
box 15, folder 3

Photography by Edmond (sic) Teske (Aug. - Sept. 1961), 1961-1970

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at Pasadena Museum of Art. Includes reviews and installation shots.
box 15, folder 4

Photographs by Edmund Teske (Oct. 31 - Nov. 26, 1961), 1961

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
box 15, folder 5

Photography USA: National Invitational Photography, (Jan. 28 - Mar. 18, 1962), 1962

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park.
box 15, folder 6

Six Photographers (1961-1963), 1961-1963

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana. Includes festival guides and receipts of purchase.
box 15, folder 7

Edmund Teske- His Work in Photography (Jan. 8 - Jan. 27, 1963), 1963

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Ceeje Gallery.
box 15, folder 8

Photographs by Edmund Teske (Mar. 20 - Apr. 21, 1963), 1962-1968

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art. Includes a photograph of Teske.
box 15, folder 9

The Selective Vision (Jan. 1965), 1965

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at Palos Verdes Community Arts Association.
box 15, folder 10

Three Photographers (Oct. 3 - Oct. 30, 1967), 1967

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at Fine Arts Gallery, San Fernando State College, California. Includes exhibition booklets.
box 15, folder 11

Arts on Paper (1966), 1966

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art. Contains one letter notifying Teske of a stolen print.
box 15, folder 12

Edmund Teske (Jun. 15 - Jul. 13, 1968), 1968

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Camera Work Gallery.
box 15, folder 13

The Film and Modern Art (Oct. 7 - Oct. 26, 1969), 1969

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Contains loan agreements from the City of Los Angeles.
box 15, folder 14

U.S.A. in Your Heart (1969), 1969

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute.
box 15, folder 15

Continuum (Apr. 22 - May 17, 1970), 1970

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at Downey Museum of Art, California.
box 15, folder 16

Edmund Teske Photographs (Mar. 14 - Apr. 2, 1970), 1960-1970

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
box 15, folder 17

Wizard of Moods: Photographs of Edmund Teske (Nov. 26 - Dec. 18, 1971) 1971

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at The Mammoth Gallery, Mammoth Lakes, California.
box 15, folder 18

Twenty-four from L.A. (Sept. 21 - Nov. 11, 1973), 1962-1983

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art.
box 15, folder 19

Through One's Eyes (Sept. 30 - Nov. 4, 1973), 1973

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California.
box 15, folder 20

Light and Substance (1974), 1974

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the University of New Mexico.
box 16, folder 1

The Shado Gallery (1974), 1974

Scope and Contents

Untitled solo exhibition.
 

[Barnsdall Park Show] (Sept. 18 - Oct. 20, 1974), 1974

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles. Contains a mock-up catalog and an invitation to Teske's installation of photographs given by David and Michael Devine in memory of Aline Barnsdall dated May 6, 1978.
box 16, folder 2

Papers

box 36

Color photographic material

box 16, folder 3

Photographic Imagery of Edmund Teske (Apr. 9 - May 4, 1974), 1973-1974

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Focus Gallery.
box 16, folder 4

Art on an Intimate Scale: Selections from the Work of Edmund Teske (Jun. 11 - Jul. 12, 1975), 1975

Abstract: Solo exhibition at the Re: Vision Gallery.
box 16, folder 5

Exposing: Photographic Definitions (Oct. 26 - Dec. 3, 1976), 1976-1977

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
box 16, folder 6

Edmund Teske (Dec. 9, 1976 - Jan. 9, 1977), 1976-1978

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Susan Spiritus Gallery. Includes correspondence.
box 16, folder 7

Art Through the Lens (Mar. 22 - Apr. 15, 1980), 1980

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at Pierce College Art Gallery.
box 16, folder 8

Photographs by Edmund Teske (Mar. 13 - Apr. 12, 1980), 1980-1981

Scope and Contents

At J. Hunt Galleries.
box 16, folder 9

Mono Lake Exhibition (Jun. 9 - Jul 27, 1980), 1980-1988

Scope and Contents

Travelling exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Oakland Museum, San Diego Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park and Western Association of Art Museums.
box 16, folder 10

Photographs of Edmund Teske (Sept. 19 - Oct. 10, 1980), 1980

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at The Friends of Photography.
box 16, folder 11

Edmund Teske: Photographs for Frank Lloyd Wright (Sept. 4 - Nov. 2, 1980), 1980-1984

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at The New Milwaukee Art Center.
box 16, folder 12

Cameravision Gallery, 1981

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition. Contains Teske's handwritten notes.
box 16, folder 13

The Nude: Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics (Feb. 12 - Mar. 14, 1983), 1983

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at Cambria Coast Gallery.
box 16, folder 14

Photography in California: 1945-1980 (Jan. 12 - Mar. 11, 1984), 1982-1984

Scope and Contents

Travelling group exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art.
box 16, folder 15

The Nude in Modern Photography (Sept. 8, 1983 - Jan. 1984), 1983-1984

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition with one photograph by Teske at San Francisco Museum of Art. One loan agreement.
box 16, folder 16

Edmund Teske and Ben Posin: A Selection of Photographic Images (Apr. 10- May 19, 1985), 1985

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the University of Southern California Atelier.
 

Edmund Teske: West Coast Masters Part II (Oct. 3 - Nov. 2, 1985), 1985

Scope and Contents

At the Silver Image Gallery.
box 16, folder 17

Papers

box 36

Color photographs

box 16, folder 18

A Fifty Year Restropective (Nov. 29, 1985 - Jan. 15, 1986), 1985-1986

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at the Vision Gallery. Includes correspondence and price lists of Teske's works.
box 16, folder 19

Edmund Teske Retrospect (Sept. 12 - Oct. 25, 1986), 1986

Scope and Contents

Solo exhibition at Images.
box 16, folder 20

Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius (Aug. 26 - Nov. 6, 1989), 1981-1989

Scope and Contents

Traveling group exhibition at The Oakland Museum.
 

The Nude: Classic and Erotic (Jul. 19 - Sept. 1, 1990) 1980-1991

Scope and Contents

At The Silver Image Gallery. Includes a list of exhibitions from 1980.
box 16, folder 21

Papers

box 36

Color photographs

box 16, folder 22

Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within (Oct. 1, 1989 - Apr. 30, 1990), 1989-1990

Scope and Contents

At the University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery.
box 16, folder 23

Photographing L.A Architecture (Jun. 8 - Jul. 6, 1991), 1991

Scope and Contents

Group exhibition at the Turner/Krull Gallery.
box 18, folder 8

Miscellaneous, 1974-1975

box 16, folder 24

Edmund Teske: Photographs - A Selection of Dayak Ancestral Figures (Dec. 4 - Jan. 8, 1994), 1994

Scope and Contents

At the Turner/Krull Gallery.
box 16, folder 25

Contemporary Photography: The California Focus (Mar. - Apr. 10, 1995), 1995

Scope and Contents

at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Also contains correspondence from Gerald Nordland, Marian Eber and Robert Heinecken unrelated to the exhibition.
 

Photo-Grab, 1974-1984

box 16, folder 26

Papers, 1974-1984

box 35*, folder 4

"Edmund Teske's Photo-Grab" (Los Angeles Herald Examiner), 1979 Dec 2

box 35*, folder 3

[Adjacencies] (Feb. 28 - Mar. 6), undated

Scope and Contents

Poster for the exhibition with Vahe Guzelimian at the Sol Mednick Gallery (Philadelphia College of Art).
 

Galleries, 1969-1995

box 17, folder 1

G. Ray Hawkins, 1979-1995

 

The Witkin Gallery, 1969-1982

Scope and Contents

Includes materials relating to exhibitions: A Survey of the Nude in Photography (Dec. 12, 1979 - Jan. 19, 1980), Edmund Teske (May 17 - June 24, 1978), Edmund Teske (March 10 - April 4) and installation shots.
box 17, folder 2-3

Papers

box 36

Color photographic materials

box 17, folder 4-5

George Eastman House, 1968-1971

Scope and Contents

Includes materials relating to exhibition: Edmund Teske (Jul. 5 - Aug. 22).
box 17, folder 6-7

Reviews, 1965-1981

box 17, folder 8

Essays about Edmund Teske, 1974-1977

Scope and Contents

Writers include Don Brewer, Rosalind Wholden, Lois R. Fishman, Diane Wiseman, Jaki Beshears, Gerald Nordland and Anita Alexander.
box 18, folder 1

Correspondence, 1980-1996

box 18, folder 2

Invitations to exhibit, 1963-1994

box 18, folder 3

Mailing list, undated

box 18, folder 4-5

Print sales, 1973-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes materials relating to acquisitions of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of Colorado, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Nebraska and David Devine.
box 18, folder 6-7

Reproduction requests, 1961-1993

 

Teaching and speaking engagements, Series II.B. 1958-1991

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet (1 box)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
box 19, folder 1-3

UCLA extension, 1965-1979

Processing Information

Folder 3 is SEALED until 2030 because class lists include students' social security numbers. The following students were enrolled in Teske's Photo workshops. Photo. Workshop w/ E. Teske: Abbott, James Beckwith; Abrahams, David; Anton, Don G.; Appel, Earl Ameil; Appleton, Donald Leon; Aron, William S.; Belson, Janice; Benson, Claudia Jeanne; Benson, Janice; Blackham, Henry Rysdyk; Boka, Victor Paul Jr.; Briggs, Alfred W.; Brown, Mark; Buckley, Laurie; Burgess, Edward Francis; Butz, Bill; Calderon, Charles Richard; Campbell, Gary Steven; Caruso, Douglas; Chess, Toby Martin; Cohen, Debra Marion; Cohen, Steven Edward; Colden, David Lewellen; Colden, Gregory Marshall; Collins, Mary K.; Cress, James Fletcher; Cucinotta, Joanna; Curtis, Clyde H.; Diamond, Sidney; Doll, Ronald L.; Drosin, Keith A.; Ebbe, Catherine; Falkenstien, Cheri Noel; Feinstein, Donald; Fidler, Eric Stephan; Flaeck, Michael S.; Fliegelman, Trudy; Flint, Kenneth D.; Fong-Powsner, Pamela; Frauenholz, Ray B.; Gablinger, Sylvie; Gallas, Jane K.; Gardner, Dina Barbara; Gertler, Leonard Fred; Gonthier, Roy Dean; Gould, Arlene; Green, Jan; Greenky, Allen G.; Grieb, Daniel Warren; Grosz, Gregory Michael; Harding, George Thomas; Harris, Jeffrey Rudolf; Hartwell, Vincent Shawn; Hathaway, Lawrence E.; Henderson, [Citas]N.; Hertz, Jo Anne; Houchins, Frankie V.; Howard, Lauren Ilene; Hwang, Kutyae; Juracka, Francis S.; Kendall, William; Kendrick, Lyn E.; Kistler, Fred; Kober, Charles Merrill (Booey Kober); Koniecy, Suzanne S.; Krawczyk, John J.; Krems, Susan Alexander; Kuo, Chung-Ching; Levine, Edward Martin; Levinson, David B.; Lohmann, Phillip Daniel; Lott, Laurie Ann; MacDonald, William C.; Makuta, Benjamin Tsutomu; Mann, Sam; Manning, Charles R.; Masten, William N.; Mealey, Mark Patrick; Merrill, Emerald H.; Mitchell, Charles King; Morrissette, Melynnda J.; Murdock, Maureen; Novak, Lorie A.; Paulsen, Lloyd Dee; Pellissier, James Robert; Quittner, Marjorie L.; Reynolds, Patricia J.; Ritter, Jay F.; Ross, Richard Michael; Ross, Richard S.; Tejada-Flores, Miguel A.; Theurkauf, Joyce Ann; Thomas, Morgan; Tushinsky, Karalee A.;
Photo. Workshop (Adv. Black-White): Alvarez, Joseph Salvador; Beshears, Jacqueline E.; Calmette, Mary Jeanette; Domnitz, Richard Joel; Fidler, Eric S.; Grady, Peter; Hanson, Wil; Lapin, Robert B.; Mandell, Michael L.; Montgomery, Thomas Truman; Powers, Randall; Tetro, James Franklin;
Enchanted Isles-Galapagosn: Willie M. Funakoshi
box 19, folder 4

Other teaching engagements, 1967-1980

Scope and Contents

Schools and institutions where Teske taught include California State University, Los Angeles, Palos Verdes Community Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Immaculate Heart College, Harvey Mudd College and Jewish People's Institute of Chicago.
box 19, folder 5

Symposiums and lectures, 1960-1991

Scope and Contents

Symposium and lecture venues include Photographic Society of America, Symposium at Barnsdall Park / Gallery Theater, J. Paul Getty Museum, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Knob Hill House, Palos Verdes Community Arts Association, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Victor School, Topanga Historical Society and University of California, Los Angeles.
box 19, folder 6

Poetry reading at Barnsdall Park, 1958

 

Writings, interviews and artworks, Series III. 1933-1993, undated

Physical Description: 11.4 Linear Feet (17 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Contains Teske's writings including his autobiography and poems; transcripts and audiovisual materials of Teske's interviews; other artist's works including Ansel Adam's Making A Photograph, several other publications, essays, mail artworks and exhibition files.

Arrangement

Arranged into three subseries: III.A. Writings; III.B. Interviews; III.C. Writings and artworks by others.
 

Writings, Series III.A. 1933-1984, undated

Physical Description: 6.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
 

Poems, 1942-1975, undated

box 20

Published and unpublished poems, 1942-1957, undated

box 21, folder 1-5

Miscellaneous poems, 1950-1951, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes typewritten poems: "Shiva Shakti," "Song of the Boulevard" and "Divine Mother."
box 21, folder 6

Prose and poetry, 1951-1975, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Evelyn [Thony] rejecting Teske's entries.
box 21, folder 7

"Unicorn," undated

box 22

Poems on various media, undated

box 35*, folder 5-8

Undated poems

box 23, folder 1-3

On photography, 1939-1976, undated

box 23, folder 4-5

Early musings and philosophy, 1933-1934, undated

box 23, folder 6

On Nathan Lerner, 1934-1984, undated

box 23, folder 7

Chicago writings, 1937, undated

Scope and Contents

See also box 33, folder 4 for original binder/case.
box 23, folder 8-10

Biography, 1980-1984, undated

box 24

Handwritten curriculum vitae, circa 1977

 

"Emanations," undated

Scope and Contents

Six-volume draft of Teske's autobiography.
box 25

Volumes 1 and 2

box 26

Volumes 3 and 4

box 27

Volumes 5 and 6

 

Interviews, Series III.B. 1973-1993, undated

Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
box 28

Transcripts, 1973-1986

box 28, folder 1

USC Lecture, 1973

box 28, folder 2

Muckenthaler, 1973

box 28, folder 3

UCLA, 1974

box 28, folder 4

Hollyhock House, 1975

Scope and Contents

See also box 29 for two sound cassettes.
box 28, folder 5

Diane Weisman interview, 1976

box 28, folder 6

Michael Darzwin interview, 1977

Scope and Contents

See also box 29 for one sound cassette.
box 28, folder 7

Susan Larsen interview, 1980

Scope and Contents

Interviews conducted at Teske's home in Los Angeles; dates: May 27, 1980 and May 30, 1980.
box 28, folder 8

Larry Bump interview, [1985]

box 28, folder 9

Darwin Marable interview, 1985-1986

box 28, folder 10

[Tape Transcript], undated

 

Audiovisual materials, 1975-1993, undated

box 29, item C1

Dub. Ed Teske, 1975 Mar 11

Scope and Contents

2 sound cassettes : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape. See also box 28, folder 4 for transcript.
box 29, item C2

Teske/[Fellerton], 1975

Scope and Contents

1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape.
box 29, item C3

Teske, 1976 Nov. 18

Scope and Contents

2 sound cassettes : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape.
box 29, item C4

Edmund Teske/Michael Darzwin interview, 1977 Apr 4

Scope and Contents

1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape. See also box 28, folder 6 for transcript.
box 29, item C5

Interview with Larkin M. Higgins, 1982 Dec. 1

Scope and Contents

1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape.
box 29, item C6

Interview with Edmund Teske by Jay Kugelman and Weston Naef, 1993

Scope and Contents

1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips, stereo ; 3 7/8 x 2 ½ in., 1/8 in. tape.
box 30, item V1

Edmund Teske interviews, 1977

Scope and Contents

3 videocassettes(U-matic) : 3/4 in.
box 30, item V2

Talk about pictures, undated

Scope and Contents

1 videocassette (VHS) : 1/2 in.
box 30, item V3

Edmund Teske, undated

Scope and Contents

2 videocassettes(VHS) : 1/2 in.
box 30, item F1

Mono Lake, undated

Scope and Contents

1 film reel : sd., mono., col. [?] : 16 mm. original.
box 30, item R1

[Edmund Teske], undated

Scope and Contents

1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in.
 

Writings and artworks by others, Series III.C. 1935-1990, undated

Physical Description: 3.4 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name.
 

Writings, 1935-1990

box 31, folder 1-9

Unpublished, 1973-1975, undated

box 31, folder 1

Judith Bernstein, "Photography Through Fourteen Eyes," 1973

box 31, folder 2

Gerald Nordland on Edmund Teske, 1974-1975

box 31, folder 3

Aron Goldberg on Edmund Teske, 1975

box 31, folder 4

Gerard Manly Hopkins, Two poems, undated

box 31, folder 5

"For Edmund," undated

box 31, folder 6

"What's This?," undated

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of excerpts from various publications.
box 31, folder 7

Henry Palmer, "How to look at the exhibition," undated

box 31, folder 8

Edward Weston, undated

 

Published, 1935-1990, undated

box 31, folder 9-10

Miscellaneous reviews and articles, 1938-1987

box 31, folder 11

Aperture, 1962

box 31, folder 12

Trace, 1962-1963

Scope and Contents

Photographs include: "Los Angeles, 1959"
box 31, folder 13

U.S. World Camera Annual, 1966

Scope and Contents

Featured one photograph and a brief description of Teske.
box 31, folder 14

Journal From The Center 1974

box 31, folder 15

Poems by William Moritz, 1982

box 31, folder 16

Canadian International Animation Festival, 1984

box 31, folder 17

Lear's, 1990

Scope and Contents

Greta Garbo article.
box 31, folder 18

Illustration from Milton's Paradise Lost, undated

box 32, folder 1-2

ArtForum, 1964

box 32, folder 3

Photo Metro, 1984-1988

box 33

Ansel Adams, Making A Photograph, 1935

 

Artworks, 1944-1993, undated

box 34, folder 1

Bob Alexander, 1956

 

Wallace Berman, 1955, undated

box 34, folder 2

Papers

box 34, folder 3

Papers relating to the Semina art gallery, 1959-1992, undated

box 35*, folder 9

Poster for the Third Los Angeles Film-Makers Festival

box 34, folder 4

Norma Gross, undated

box 34, folder 5

Tim Geany, undated

box 34, folder 6

Robert Heinecken, 1972-1973, undated

 

George Herms, 1962-1985

box 34, folder 7-8

Papers and artworks, 1962-1985

box 35*, folder 10

Poster for exhibition at Nicholas Wilder Gallery, 1973

box 34, folder 9

Flaven Hyland, 1993, undated

box 34

M.C., 1963, undated

box 35*, folder 10

Artwork

box 36

Color photograph of Jean Cocteau

box 34, folder 11

Anaïs Nin, 1947-1948

box 34, folder 12

Man Ray, 1944-1982

 

Aaron Siskind, 1950-1964

box 34, folder 13

Papers, 1950-1953

Scope and Contents

Includes one essay, "Credo 1950."
box 35*, folder 11

Poster for exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964

box 34, folder 14

Dean Stockwell, 1968

box 34, folder 15

Unidentified mail artwork, undated

box 34, folder 16

Miscellaneous, undated

 

Exhibitions by other artists, 1980-1984, undated

box 34, folder 17-18

Papers and ephemera, 1980-1984, undated

box 35*, folder 12

Poster for Frances and Robert Flaherty exhibition, undated