Retrospect

by Meghan Drueding Frank Lloyd Wright isn’t necessarily thought of as warm and fuzzy. But he got along famously with photographer Pedro Guerrero, who started documenting Wright’s work at the tender age of 22 and continued to do so for the next 20 years. Guerrero, who was known for his combination of artistic talent and technical brilliance, went on to become the favored photographer of artists Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. He died in 2012 in Florence, Arizona, not far from his birthplace of Mesa. In September, PBS premiered the film Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey, presented by the American Masters series and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES series. (The film will be available on DVD and for digital download starting November 17 at ShopPBS.org.) We spoke with Raymond Telles, who co-directed and co-produced with Yvan Iturriaga, about the experience of making the film. Read Full Article Here

Photographer who after striking up an unlikely rapport with Frank Lloyd Wright went on to portray the great Modernist architect at work Pedro Guerrero was for 20 years the trusted photographer for America’s best-known architect Frank Lloyd Wright until FLW’s death in 1959. Read full article HERE.

Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century working closely with him, capturing his modernist architecture on film, died on Thursday at his home in Florence, Ariz. He was 95. Read full article HERE.

In 1939, twenty-two-year-old Pedro E. Guerrero, having impatiently bolted from his studies at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, was back in Mesa, Arizona, contemplating what to do next. His father, who had built a successful sign painting business, had once done a job for Frank Lloyd Wright, and remembered that the architect had a school "somewhere near Scottsdale. Maybe he needed a photographer?" The father went to the store where he had seen Wright buy paint, and got an address. A letter of inquiry was sent. "Yes," Wright responded. "Come any time." Guerrero traveled to Scottsdale to find Wright in his driveway, saying goodbye to luncheon guests. Read full article HERE.