Edmund Teske was an American photographer known for an experimental approach that blended photography with interests in drawing, painting, music, and design. He began making photographs at a young age and later worked in Chicago as a commercial studio assistant before receiving a photography fellowship under Frank Lloyd Wright. Teske also taught at the New Bauhaus Institute of Design alongside László Moholy-Nagy and later worked in New York as an assistant to photographer Berenice Abbott.
After moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s, Teske worked briefly at Paramount Pictures while continuing to develop his own photographic practice. He became especially interested in alternative printing methods, including solarization, and often returned to earlier negatives to reinterpret them in new ways. His work is distinguished by its layered, expressive quality and by a lifelong interest in expanding the creative possibilities of the photographic image.