International Center of Photography, New York; Port-
land Art Museum, Oregon)
1984 Photography in California, 1945–1980, Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco (traveled to Akron Art
Museum, Ohio; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washing-
ton, D.C.; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall
Park; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Uni-
versity, Ithaca, New York; The High Museum of Art,
Atlanta; Museum of Folkwang, Essen, West Germany;
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pom-
pidou, Paris; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
1985 L’Autoportrait a ́ l’Age de la Photographie, Musee ́
Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
(toured Europe)
1989 Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Gen-
ius, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland
Selected Works
Death Stalks the Fillmore, 1934
Strange Visitors, 1934
Out of the Pool, San Francisco, 1934
Inside the First Drive-In Theatre, Los Angeles, 1935
The News Photographer, San Francisco City Hall, 1935
The Marble Steps of Baltimore, 1936
Elevator Garage with Parking Lot, Chicago, 1936
The Game, 1937
Jitterbug, New Orleans, 1937
‘‘Yes, Columbus Did Discover America!’’ San Francisco,
1938
High, 1987Further Reading
Humphrey, John.As I Saw It: Photographs by John Gut-
mann, Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, 1976.
Kozloff, Max. ‘‘The Extravagant Depression: John Gutmann’s
Photographs of the Thirties.’’Artforum, November, 1982.
Marable, Darwin. ‘‘The Marvelous Extravagance of Life.’’
The World & I Magazine, March, 1990.
Phillips, Sandra.The Photography of John Gutmann: Cul-
ture Shock. New York: Merrell Publishers, 2000.
Sutnik, Maia-Mari. ‘‘John Gutmann.’’Contemporary Photo-
graphers, C. Naylor, (ed.), Chicago: St. James, 1988.
Thomas, Lew, ed.The Restless Decade, John Gutmann’s
Photographs of the Thirties, Essay by Max Kozloff,
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
Trachtenberg, Alan. ‘‘The Restless Decade: John Gut-
mann.’’Exposure, Fall, 1985.GUTMANN, JOHN