Elevator Garage, Chicago
An accomplished painter before immigrating to the United States as a photo-reporter in 1933, Gutmann sought characteristically American scenes to record and send back to his agency. The movable freestanding elevator garage he discovered in Chicago allowed him to convey with witty and stylish economy the ubiquity of the motorcar, the vertical compression of urban space, and the technological solutions of the modern American metropolis.
Artwork Details
- Title: Elevator Garage, Chicago
- Artist: John Gutmann (American (born Germany), Breslau 1905–1998 San Francisco, California)
- Date: 1936
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.122
- Rights and Reproduction: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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