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Born in Texas in 1925, Ted Williams spent his early years in Kansas and Michigan before serving with the US Coast Guard in the North Atlantic and Western Pacific during WWII. After briefly studying art and music (saxophone and clarinet), he attended the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Here he took classes with Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Buckminster Fuller and Art Siegel.
Using Chicago as home base, he took photo-journalism assignments all over the US as well as Europe, Latin America and the Far East for many of the major magazines such as Time, Newsweek , Ebony and Look. He covered jazz for Down Beat, Playboy and Metronome. During this period, he photographed all phases of the civil rights movement. In 1966 he covered the war in Vietnam for Ebony magazine and the AP agency.
From 1967-72 he lived and worked in Mexico City. During this time he covered the 1968 Olympics for the Olympic Committee of Mexico and participated in a group exhibition at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City as part of the Cultural Olympics. He was also a partner and cinematographer at FORO 70, a small film production company specializing in educational and documentary films.
Since the early Seventies, he has settled in Los Angeles. He now works as a free-lance photographer taking assignments from Ebony magazine, the Los Angeles Olympic Committee and other media outlets.
Mr. Williams is a remarkable photojournalist and cinematographer. His recent exhibitions have included a one-man show in 1996 at Chicago's South Shore Cultural Center titled "Jazz: A Chicago Groove." He has also participated in the group exhibit "Images of Music: Classical Through Rock" at SOHO Triad Fine Arts Gallery in New York City.
Ted sums up his feelings about his career "I just have a deep love for the music, the people and photography & and he has loved every minute of it.
GALLERY M is proud to exclusively represent Ted Williams' signature, limited edition Jazz photographs online and in the Colorado Front Range.
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