Kurt Hutton

Kurt Hutton: The Quiet Pioneer

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Text by John Chillingworth and Colin Wilkinson
ISBN 9781908457240
Soft cover
Duotone:ย  290 x 220mm portrait + 132pp

 

More often than not, when discussion turns to the pioneering days of modern photojournalism, a number of names instantly spring to mind; Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Doisneau and Kertesz are just a handful who are synonymous with the genre. However, arguably one of the founding fathers of reportage is inevitably missing from the list. A man who was at the very forefront of this photographic revolution and who, like those mentioned above, did much to change the world of photography. Kurt Hutton – arguably every bit as influential and ground-breaking as his counterparts โ€“ did much to usher in the new era of photo-documentary and was one of an elite band of photojournalists to first utilize the Leica in Britain, fundamentally changing how we viewed our world in the process.

 

The โ€˜revelatory experienceโ€™ – when one comes across Kurtโ€™s imagery for the first time – seems to be a regular occurrence and happened again recently with none other than the Leica company itself โ€“ needless to say, an exhibition is now touring Leica galleries across Europe as a result. It is baffling why Hutton is not mentioned in the same breath as those โ€˜greatsโ€™ listed above but after a hiatus of some 70 years since the last โ€˜Kurt Huttonโ€™ book, we can at least take another small step in establishing Hutton as one of the true giants of 20thย century photojournalism.