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Pedro "Pete" Guerrero - the photographer who chronicled Frank Lloyd Wright during the iconic architect's final 20 years - remembers Wright's vitality, not his wrinkles.
"Strangely enough, I never noticed that he was getting old," Guerrero says of Wright, who died at age 91 in 1959. "He was 50 years older than I was, so he was an old man all the time. But he was still very active. He always had a twinkle in his eye and was always busy. The last time I saw him, we walked around Taliesin West and I think my ankles were bending more than his were,"
Guerrero, age 42 at the time of Wright's death, is now being honored in Madison for his work on Wright. A 51-piece exhibit of Guerrero's photography is permanently on display at Monona Terrace. At 7 p.m. Thursday, the Wright Lecture Series at the Monona Terrace will screen the documentary "Pedro E. Guerrero, Portrait of an Image Maker" to celebrate Guerrero's recent 90th birthday.
Guerrero will be on hand to sign copies of his recent book "Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey," which features pictures of Wright as well as two other Guerrero subjects: Alexander Calder, sculptor and inventor of the mobile, and New York found object artist Louise Nevelson.
As Guerrero's reaches Wright's age, he rejoices in his own longevity.
"It's frightening to believe (Wright) was an old man of 91 and now here I am at age 90. But I'm not really frightened unless I write it down on a piece of paper," Guerrero...