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John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter.

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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.

Association, Believe, Open, Picture, Read, Want

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.

Art, Believe, Essence, Make

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.

Enigmatic, Important, Like, Photograph, Want

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

Ideas, Painting, Photography, Urge

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