Great Black and White Photographers 2

    John Gutmann was born in the year of 1905 in Breslau, Germany, Europe. Gutmann had always wanted  to be a painter so he studied under Otto Mueller and after a few years he became know for his vivid images of popular culture. He then moved to the United States and had brought a foreigners view to the streets of California were he saw many things such as tattoo parlors unusual license plates and golf links. excited he took out a camera an started taking pictures hood ornaments license plats an other things, he also took a notable series of N.Y. City in the 1940s. In germany he had worked as a photojournalist for presse photo before his arrival in the U.S.,when he worked for Pix inc. as a photojournalist (1936-1963). He was also a professor at San Francisco state university from 1938 to 1973. John had also won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1978.His work has been published in major periodicles and is held by such collections as those those of the Amon Carter in Fort Worth, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, and the Seagram Collection in N.Y. He then died in 1998 at he age of 93 years old but his work will never be forgotten.

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