As i photographer i researched a fellow photographer by the name of John Gutmann. In the article it talks about his well-off upbringing which made it easy for him to go to an arts school at the time. Which is in the 20's. From this he went on to be a master student in painting. Then when he was older he had a promising future as an art professor or as painter but this was terminated by the Hitler run government in Germany, where he lived at the time. He then decided to head to the Americas, more specifically San Fransisco California. He bought a Rolleiflex camera and some film which would jump start his career as a photographer. While living in America he was astonished from the lifestyle of the natives and made a body of work consisting from the pictures of the every day lives of pedestrians. To some it might just be an everyday photograph but to him it was seeing things through the eyes of a foreigner. He also got involved with taking portraits of pop culture persons and swimmers. He was intrigued by all the glitz of the star and as for the swimmers it was the rippling water and how it fell off of the swimmers bodies. Also for the pop culture icons he analyzes them rather then endorses them. As for what i am going to take away from this article, i applaud John Gutmann, not only for leaving his home to pursue his dream but also to be able to look beyond the every day man and find something spectacular. One of my favorite images is "the artist lives dangerously", this is truly a moment a photographer would not want to miss, and it also can speak to one because isn't it always a dangerous game we artists play? -Tara MacMurray

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/G/gutmann/gutmann.html