John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work - Reception & Lecture October 30, 2009

Sally Stein takes as a starting point the 1941 juried photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Images of Freedom,” and considers in particular how the strange yet successful submission by Gutmann, the émigré artist-turned photographer, exemplified his own defiance of convention and his love of the anti-traditional in his adopted homeland.

Stein is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Art History at the University of California and continues as an independent scholar to study American photography and culture. Her most recent publication is John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work, the exhibition catalogue.

Reception at 5pm, Lecture at 6pm