July 22, 2018
âINSPIREâ
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 LAâs Griffith Park and shot a series of iconic portraits, one of which was eventually used on one of two different album covers for âThe Lost Paris Tapesâ: a set of of never officially released songs and poemsârecorded in Los Angeles but found in Paris after Morrisonâs death. Decades later Los Angeles artist, muralist, designer and photographer Alex Gonzalez, aka Ali, used Teskeâs portrait for this âinspiringâ mural at @OceanStudiosBurbank on San Fernando Rd in Burbank, California.  @alex-ali-gonzalez  @alex_ali_gonzalez/
