Turning to Look

John Gutmann American, born Germany

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This tiny image is a contact print from a negative exposed in a Rolleiflex camera. It portrays a fashion model whom the photographer dated in San Francisco. Neither fact explains the haunting effect of the image as well as Andre Breton's words (concerning Man Ray): "It needed the eye of a great hunter, the patience, the sense of the moment pathetically right when a balance, transient besides, occurred in the expression of a face, between dream and action."

Turning to Look, John Gutmann (American (born Germany), Breslau 1905–1998 San Francisco, California), Gelatin silver print

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