Pedro E. Guerrero

Pedro Eduardo Guerrero ( born September 5, 1917 in Casa Grande, Arizona; † 13 September 2012 in Florence, Arizona) was an American photographer who, above all, for his collaboration with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the two sculptors Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson was known.

Life and work

Pedro Eduardo Guerrero was the son of the restaurant entrepreneur Pedro W. Guerrero and his wife Rosaura Castro. He was of Mexican descent and grew up in Mesa at a time when he had little contact with people not of Hispanic origin. He attended purely Mexican schools. At the age of 20 years he went to his brother to Los Angeles and began studying photography at the Art Center College of Design. He did not intend to study photography. It was simply the only course which was open for him. He applied in 1939 by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright as a photographer for such works and was taken. Thus, a 20-year collaboration in which Guerrero was all the buildings until his death in 1959 photographed. This creative period was interrupted only by the Second World War, when Guerrero served as a photographer in the United States Army Air Corps.

From 1963, Guerrero worked for the U.S. American sculptor Alexander Calder as a photographer. He also worked with him until his death in 1976, 13 years later, together. Over a magazine article in 1979, he learned the sculptor Louise Nevelson, with whom he then worked for five years.

On September 13, 2012 Guerrero died at the age of 95 years to the following of a cancer disease at his home in Florence, Arizona. He was survived by his wife and their three children.