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Henry Wessel, Jr. (born 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey^[1]) is an American photographer noted for his descriptive, yet poetic photographs of the human environment.

Photography career

Wessel earned a B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1966 and an M.F.A. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972. Before graduating with his M.F.A., in 1971, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Wessel a fellowship and, one year later, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his photographs. In short order, Wessel’s work was included in exhibits at the International Museum of Photography and collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Visiting California in 1970, Wessel was taken by the West Coast light and moved to San Francisco. Today, Wessel is on faculty in the photography department of San Francisco Art Institute. Much of Wessel's work is still produced in California. To date, Wessel has produced five books of photography. In 2007, Henry Wessel will be exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Wessel on photography

"Chances are, if you believe the light, you’re going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world."

Bibliography

California and the West
Odd Photos
Las Vegas
Real Estate Photographs (1992)
Night Walk (2000)

References

^ Gefter, Philip. "Henry Wessel: Capturing the Image, Transcending the Subject", The New York Times, May 21, 2006. Accessed November 8, 2007. "Mr. Wessel, who was born in Teaneck, N.J., 64 years ago, aims for that innocence in his work: he wants to narrow the distinction between the subjects he chooses and how they look photographed."

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[1] Gefter, Philip. "Henry Wessel: Capturing the Image, Transcending the Subject", The New York Times, May 21, 2006. Accessed November 8, 2007. "Mr. Wessel, who was born in Teaneck, N.J., 64 years ago, aims for that innocence in his work: he wants to narrow the distinction between the subjects he chooses and how they look photographed."

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 *[http://www.renabranstengallery.com/wessel.html Gallery of Wessel photographs]
 *[http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/wessel_jr_henry.php Museum of Contemporary Photography entry on Wessel]
+*[http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=17900 Interview with Henry Wessel about his process on KQED's Spark.]
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