Gelatin silver print. Image: 36.6x29 cm (14½x11½"); sheet: 43x35.6 cm (17x14"). Unsigned printer's copy outside of edition. Image from a portfolio of 10 silver prints printed from the negatives of the original photographs from the 1930's and 40's, under supervision of the photographer. John Gutmann (1905–1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter active in San Francisco. Being Jewish, he was unable to exhibit his paintings or get a job teaching in Nazi Germany, and so he emigrated to the United States, arriving in San Francisco in late 1933. Gutmann reinvented himself as a photographer before he left Germany, purchasing a Rolleiflex and signing a photojournalism contract with Presse-Photo in 1933. He 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. After arriving in San Francisco, one of the first news stories he documented was the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike. "[San Francisco was] very refreshing to me. I had had enough of art with a capital A, culture with a capital K. It was liberating to come to a place so backward in art and aesthetics." — John Gutmann 1989 San Francisco Examiner profile.
Gelatin silver print. Image: 36.6x29 cm (14½x11½"); sheet: 43x35.6 cm (17x14"). Unsigned printer's copy outside of edition. Image from a portfolio of 10 silver prints printed from the negatives of the original photographs from the 1930's and 40's, under supervision of the photographer. John Gutmann (1905–1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter active in San Francisco. Being Jewish, he was unable to exhibit his paintings or get a job teaching in Nazi Germany, and so he emigrated to the United States, arriving in San Francisco in late 1933. Gutmann reinvented himself as a photographer before he left Germany, purchasing a Rolleiflex and signing a photojournalism contract with Presse-Photo in 1933. He 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. After arriving in San Francisco, one of the first news stories he documented was the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike. "[San Francisco was] very refreshing to me. I had had enough of art with a capital A, culture with a capital K. It was liberating to come to a place so backward in art and aesthetics." — John Gutmann 1989 San Francisco Examiner profile.
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