Guest curator Sally Stein takes as a starting point the 1941 juried photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Images of Freedom, and considers in particular how the strange yet successful submission by Gutmann exemplified his own defiance of convention and his love of the anti-traditional in his adopted homeland. Stein is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Art History at the University of California and continues as an independent scholar to study American photography and culture. Her most recent publication is John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work, the exhibition catalogue. The talk is being held in conjunction with the exhibit John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work on display from Oct. 23 through Jan. 31 at the Center for Creative Photography.