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PBS airing show on photographer Guerrero
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Pedro E. Guerrero, right, stands with architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1949. "Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey" documentary will show at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday and at 3 p.m. Sunday on Wisconsin Public Television. The PBS American Masters documentary on Guerrero traces his life and career. (Photo supplied)
MONROE - Wisconsin Public Television will show the documentary "Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey" at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday and at 3 p.m. Sunday. The PBS American Masters documentary on Guerrero traces his life and career.

Guerrero's last exhibit was at the Monroe Arts Center in Monroe from July 6 to Aug. 31, 2012. He died two weeks after the exhibit closed.

The exhibit was titled "The Art of Pedro Guerrero: Photographs of Calder, Nevelson, Wright, and Others." Guerrero never considered himself an artist because he didn't think the mechanical process of photography allowed for the designation. He nevertheless knew his work was important and that his preparation, methods, and skill helped make it important.

Guerrero is best known for his photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, which were taken during the last twenty years of Wright's life. At least one critic claims that Guerrero's "Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright's Photographer" is far more than an album and may well be the best biography on the great architect.

Guerrero is less well known for his photographs of Alexandra Calder and Louise Nevelson, yet his photographs of these two artists are as informative and revealing as his photographs of Wright.

This documentary reveals the man behind the camera whose work tells us so much about these three great 20th-century American artists.