As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.


The restless decade: John Gutmann's photographs of the thirties (ed. ABRAMS, 1984)

John Gutmann Quotes

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual...

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual...

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual...

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual...