Wessel, Henry

LC control no.	n 87925664
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wessel, Henry *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wessel, Henry, Jr.
Located	Ridgefield (N.J.)
Birth date	1942-07-28
Death date	2018-09-21
Place of birth	Teaneck (N.J.)
Place of death	Point Richmond (Calif.)
Field of activity	Photography
Profession or occupation	Photographers
Found in	His Henry Wessel, c1987: p. 87 (res.: Cal., USA; photographer) Incidents, 2013: title page (Henry Wessel) Wikipedia, January 20, 2017 (Henry Wessel, Jr.; Henry Wessel (born 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American photographer noted for his descriptive, yet poetic photographs of the human environment. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and three National Endowment for the Arts grants. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of major American, European, and Asian museums. Wessel's first solo exhibition was curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972 and he was one of ten photographers included in the influential New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape exhibition at George Eastman House in 1975. His work has since been frequently and widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Wessel has also produced a number of books of his photography) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 25, 2018 (in obituary published Sept. 24: Henry Wessel; Henry Wessel Jr.; b. July 28, 1942, Teaneck, N.J.; grew up in Ridgefield; d. Friday [Sept. 21, 2018], Port Richmond, Calif., aged 76; distinguished photographer of the American West who captured not so much its vast grandeur as its small moments of daily life: the roadside novelty, the trimmed shrubbery, the man in a business suit on an empty beach)
Associated language	eng