Henry Wessel

“Oklahoma” (1975) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Henry Wessel, Jr. (born 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American photographer noted for his descriptive, yet poetic photographs of the human environment. 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. Currently, Wessel is on faculty in the photography department of San Francisco Art Institute.

Here is an excellent New York Times article featuring Hank and his work