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Winstone. Bristol’s Earliest Photographs. Bristol, 1970.
(These works show several un-credited images by Gutch, as well
as many other early photographers).
Wooters, David.”In Search of Health and the Picturesque.” Im-
age, vol. 36, nos. 1–2. (A good essay, largely about the album
of Scottish views by Gutch in the George Eastman House
Collection.)
GUTEKUNST, FREDERICK (1831–1917)
American photographer
Known as the “dean of American photographers,”
Frederick Gutekunst was born in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania on September 25, 1831. A prominent portrait-
ist and professional photographer whose work was
prolifi cally published, Gutekunst, the son of a German
cabinetmaker, served apprenticeships with a lawyer and
a druggist before opening his fi rst studio in 1856 with
his brother, Louis. He photographed celebrity authors,
artists, scientists, foreign dignitaries, Civil War generals,
and presidents, as well as ordinary citizens, and kept
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detailed ledgers of his sitters, one of which survives
at the Library Company of Philadelphia. A member of
the Photographic Society of Philadelphia 1862–1900,
Gutekunst gained recognition for his set of Gettysburg
battlefi eld views, and for printing in 1876, what was
then the world’s largest photographic mural, a 10 foot
wide by 18 inch high panoramic view of the Centen-
nial Exposition made from seven negatives. As offi cial
photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, he docu-
mented structures and scenery of three of its divisions in- In 1878 he purchased the rights to the phototype
process, a photomechanical process allowing mass pro-
duction of high-quality reproductions of photographs,
which proved to be an additional boon to his business.
Gutekunst worked until eight weeks before his death at
his Philadelphia home on April 27, 1917.
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