July 22, 2018
“INSPIRE”
by Ali Gonzalez
Born in Chicago in 1911 Edmund Teske received his first box camera in 1920. By the mid-30s Teske was in Wisconsin working under the guidance of Frank Lloyd Wright and by the mid-40s was working for Hollywood studios. In 1969, two years before the world lost Jim Morrison at only age 27, Teske took Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson to the Bronson Caves in LA’s Griffith Park and shot a series of iconic portraits, one of which was eventually used on one of two different album covers for “The Lost Paris Tapes”: a set of of never officially released songs and poems—recorded in Los Angeles but found in Paris after Morrison’s death. Decades later Los Angeles artist, muralist, designer and photographer Alex Gonzalez, aka Ali, used Teske’s portrait for this “inspiring” mural at @OceanStudiosBurbank on San Fernando Rd in Burbank, California. @alex-ali-gonzalez @alex_ali_gonzalez/
