Shakti over Shiva, Los Angeles, California
1968 · Gelatin silver print
Image/paper: 33.5 × 23.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 7/16 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 25 cm (18 × 9 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Edmund Teske
Artist
PhotographySurrealism
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
27
Works in Collection
41
Assets Indexed
1
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Publications Referenced
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- • Surrealism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972–1973
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Photography as Printmaking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Why this artist matters now
Edmund Teske was an American photographer known for his dreamlike black-and-white images that merged surrealist sensibility with precise darkroom technique. Active from the 1930s through the 1990s, he created atmospheric portraits, architectural studies, and experimental photomontages that treated the photographic negative as a malleable surface for intervention and layering. His work occupied a singular space between documentary observation and constructed reverie, employing solarization, double exposure, and hand-drawn interventions to generate psychological and poetic dimensions within the photographic frame.
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Museum of Modern Art
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