Phillips, Sandra S., 1945-

The photography of John Gutmann: culture shock / essay by Sandra S. Phillips ; exhibition organized by Joel Levick and Bernard Barryte.

London : Merrell in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2000.

144 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

"This retrospective volume traces Gutmann's career from his training as a painter in Germany, first under renowned Expressionist Otto Muller, then in the wild, decadent Berlin of the 1930s, through his resolution to leave during Hitler's ascent to power, to his decision to settle in San Francisco. As a Jew, Gutmann was forbidden by the Nazis to exhibit or teach; photojournalism struck him as a useful means of supporting himself as a refugee. He had no training as a photographer and no interest in the medium as a pure art form, but he was fascinated by the popular culture of photography in magazines. Bringing to San Francisco the eye for the bizarre that he had developed in recording the vibrant, cosmopolitan life of Berlin - an eye further sensitized by his status as an exile in a strange country - Gutmann photographed the odd, the morbid, and the freakish with the detachment of an anthropologist examining an exotic culture."--Jacket.

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Gutmann, John.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Biography.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographers
Photography, Artistic
Foto's.
United States Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
United States

exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

Location: Library main 212256
Call No.: TR140.G983 G9 2000
Status: Available