John Guttman
John Guttman was a Jewish immigrant photographer who left Nazi Germany for America in 1933. He took up residence in San Francisco and this exhibition, ‘Culture Shock’, chronicles his work a few years later at the height of the depression. There are over 100 black-and-white photographs of cars, jazz singers and musicians, and other everyday examples of American popular culture. At this time, Guttman also began to experiment with inventing and constructing images into a Surrealist adaptation, some whic is also on display.
