Cedric Wright [is] a photographer of unusual experience. Wright started life as
a violinist. He studied for six years in Praque and Vienna with Ottacar Sevick
and later with Louis Persinger. He taught at Mills College and for the
University of California Extension. Recently, because of arthritic fingers,
Wright took up photography as a profession.
He says that he has
no regrets for changing horses in the middle of the stream, because what he
learned in music was more useful to photography than anything photography
had to offer.
His "concertizing" as a photographer
include one man shows at the art building of the Panama Pacific
International Exposition and at the galleries of Stanford, Mills College,
University of California, Pale Verdes and Santa Barbara. He has many prints
in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His
Chief pride is to have photographed for the Sierra Club on its summer
outings.
This varied experience as an artist and especially
his contact with the mountains led to the second change in his work. He is
at present absorbed in writing a book in which he is express his concern
over the modern educational system. He thinks schools over-emphasize the
memorizing of facts and frequently overlook the importance of training for
original and creative living and better international understanding.
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_____. "Cedric Wright, Photographer,
Takes Up Pen." Berkeley Daily
Gazette, (March 27, 1952), p. 12.
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ARTICLE
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"Photographer's Work to Be Seen At Bishop's
Studio"
Berkeley Daily Gazette
November 27, 1953
BOOK
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"Cedric Wright: Words of the Earth"
Front-Inside Book Jacket
David Brower
September 28, 1960
BOOK
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"Cedric Wright: Words of the Earth"
Forward
Ansel Adams
August 20, 1960
BOOK
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"Cedric Wright: Words of the Earth"
Verse
by Cedric Wright
edited by Nancy Newhall
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