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Henry Wessel Jr.

Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made "obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West".

Life and work
Wessel was born in Teaneck, New Jersey Throughout much of his career he used only one camera and one type of film: a Leica 35 mm camera with a 28 mm wide-angle lens and Kodak Tri-X film. His later work did incorporate color. Wessel was emeritus professor of art at San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught from 1973 to 2014. Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art wrote, "Wessel's remarkable work, witty, evocative and inventive, is distinctive and at the same time a component part of the great development of photography which flourished in the 1970s. The pictures continue to grow and evolve and the work is now regarded as an individual important contribution to twentieth century American photography. Wessel died at the age of 76 in his home in Point Richmond, Richmond, California from pulmonary fibrosis on September 21, 2018. ==Publications==
Publications
Publications by WesselHouse Pictures. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1992. . • Night Walk. Santa Monica, CA: RAM Publications + Distribution, 2000. . • Henry Wessel: Rena Bransten Gallery Exhibition Catalogue San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 2000. ASIN: B000UPRBAW • California and the West / Odd Photos / Las Vegas / Real Estate Photographs / Night Walk. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. . Five-volume set. • Henry Wessel. Göttingen: Steidl; San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007. . Retrospective. With an essay by Sandra S. Phillips. • Waikiki. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. . • Incidents. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. . • Sunset Park. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. • Continental Divide. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. • Traffic. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. • Traffic / Sunset Park / Continental Divide. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. . Publications with contributions by WesselLooking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. . By John Szarkowski. • Henry Wessel. Göttingen: Steidl, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, 2007. . Edited by Thomas Zander with introductions by Sandra S. Phillips and George Imdahl. • New Topographics: Roberts Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel Jr.. Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. . Includes the work of Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Grohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel Jr. • Closer than Fiction: American Visual Worlds around 1970. Walther König, Köln, Germany, 2011. . Edited and with introduction by Brigitte Franzen and Anna Sophia Schultz. • Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2011. . Edited by Elizabeth Hamilton. • Here., San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011. . Exhibition guide. • About Face, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2012. . Exhibition guide. • About Face. San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014. . Exhibition catalog. Edition of 1000 copies. With forewords by Christopher McCall, and Richard Avedon (from In The American West), an introduction by Philip Gefter, and texts by Sandra S. Phillips, and Ulrike Schneider. ==Exhibitions==
Exhibitions
Solo • 1972–1973: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. • 1987: International Museum of Photography, Osaka, Japan • 1998: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. • 2007: Henry Wessel: Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. • 2007: Henry Wessel, Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany. • 2014–2015: Incidents, Tate Modern, London. Group • 1975: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. • 1983: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. • 1989: Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius, Oakland Museum, CA. • 1991: Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. • 1993: Critical Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan. • 1996: Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. • 2000: Walker Evans & Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. • 2003: Looking at Photographs, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. • 2005: Amerikanische Street Photography, Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany. • 2005: Garry Winogrand and American Street Photographers Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, and Henry Wessel, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands • 2009: Into the Sunset Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York. • 2011–2012: Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. • 2011–2012: Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974–1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. • 2011–2012: Here., Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA (May 2011 – January 2012) • 2012–2013: About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA (May 2012– April 2013) ==Awards==
Awards
• 1971: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. • 1975: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. • 1977: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. • 1978: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. • 1978: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ==Collections==
Collections
Wessel's work is held in the following public collections: ==References==
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