1992 Distanz und Na ̈he, organized for international tour by
the Institut fu ̈r Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany
1993 Die Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1994 The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic Art,
Hayward Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, England
1995 Fotografie nach der Fotografie, Aktionsforum Prater-
insel, Munich, Germany
1998 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1998, The
Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1998 Das Versprechen der Fotografie: Die Sammlung der DG
Bank, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan and traveling
1999 Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German
Photography, Architectural Association, London, England
2000 How You Look at It, Sprengel Museum, Hannover,
Germany, and traveling
Selected Works
Schwimmbad, Teneriffa, 1987
Bochum, Uni, 1988
Ruhrtal, 1989
Salerno, 1990
Paris, Montparnasse, 1993
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, 1994
Atlanta, 1996
Rhein, 1996
Chicago Board of Trade II, 1999
Shanghai, 2000
Tote Hosen, 2000
Further Reading
Bu ̈rgi, Bernhard, ed.Andreas Gursky. Cologne: Walther
Ko ̈nig, 1992.
Felix, Zdenek, ed.Andreas Gursky: Photographs, 1984–
1993. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1994.
Galassi, Peter.Andreas Gursky. New York: Museum of
Modern Art, 2001.
Syring, Marie-Luise, ed.Andreas Gursky: Photographs from
1984 to the Present. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1998.
JOHN GUTMANN
American
John Gutmann had two advantages working as a
photojournalist in America in the 1930s. As a Ger-
man immigrant, he saw American life and culture
through the eyes of an outsider. Also, his back-
ground in painting and familiarity with modernism
merged and influenced his photographic visions.
Although Gutmann photographed in America
from 1933 on, his photographs were virtually un-
known until the 1970s, when the art world accepted
photography as a serious art form.
John Guttman was born May 28, 1905 in Bres-
lau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) into a fi-
nancially comfortable Jewish family, where he was
exposed to the arts at an early age. He had a
special affinity for the visual arts and entered the
State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau,
Adrea Gursky, Paris, Montparnasse, 1993.
[Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, New York]
GUTMANN, JOHN