Photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008) began his career
in the 1970s with extensive photographic experiments to capture his
close circle of friends and colleagues. Largely self-taught, he began to
attract wider critical attention with his landscape images, initially
snapshots from his moving car and later exquisite compositions
influenced by his deep understanding of both historical and contemporary
photography traditions of the American West. His haunting photographs
often focused on the Oregon desert and coastline, and magnificent basalt
formations of the Pacific Northwest.
Sun, Shadows, Stone is the first scholarly monograph of the
photography of Terry Toedtemeier. His photographs were featured in the
nationally traveling exhibition Framing the West: The Survey
Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan and are in the collections of many
museums including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Philadelphia
Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.