Olympic High Diving Champion, Marjorie Gestring, San Francisco
John Gutmann
1936 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs
When John Gutmann released his camera's shutter, Marjorie Gestring may have been ascending or descending in her dive, but in the picture the Olympic gold medalist levitates in the pause bridging ascent and descent. The artist himself emphasized the tension of the moment by mounting the photograph eccentrically. Gutmann, an accomplished painter before immigrating to the United States as a photoreporter in 1933, lives in San Francisco.
- Artist
- John Gutmann
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
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