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John Gutmann Quotes:

John Gutmann quotes

Life: May 28, 1905 - June 12, 1998

Birthday: May 28

Death: June 12

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Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

Topics: Important, Want, Photograph, Enigmatic

quote content to me is very important but i like it when the photograph is also enigmatic john gutmann Quotes

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

Topics: Photography, Ideas, Painting

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.

source: - Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

Topics: Believe, Want, Association, Subjective

I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.

Topics: Art, Believe, Essence, Essence Of Life

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