John Gutmann was a German-born American photographer and painter.
13 Facts About John Gutmann
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John Gutmann earned a degree in art from Staatliche Akademie fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau and moved to Berlin in 1927, earning a post-graduate degree at Preussisches Shulkollegium for Hohere Erziehung.
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John Gutmann reinvented himself as a photographer before he left Germany, purchasing a Rolleiflex and signing a photojournalism contract with Presse-Photo in 1933.
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John Gutmann continued to work as a photojournalist for Presse-Photo from the West Coast until he signed on with PIX in 1936, an agency he worked with until 1962.
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In between, John Gutmann served with the United States Office of War Information during World War II.
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John Gutmann's work was later packaged into a traveling exhibition, "Beyond the Document", which moved from SFMOMA to the Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art starting in 1989.
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John Gutmann is recognized for his unique "worm's-eye view" camera angle.
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John Gutmann enjoyed taking photos of ordinary things and making them seem special.
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John Gutmann fell in love with Depression-era America, which he traveled by Greyhound Bus Line.
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John Gutmann saw its cars, its rites and festival, its athletes, its women, its vibrant African American communities and its dynamic street life with European eyes.
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John Gutmann created the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, through the San Francisco Foundation.
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The full archive of John Gutmann's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which manages the copyright of his work.
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John Gutmann's work is held in the following permanent public collections:.