December 27, 2006

Gutmann Photography Fellowship Winner Announced

(SAN FRANCISCO) – Wednesday, December 27, 2006 – The San Francisco Foundation announced today that Doug Dubois, of Syracuse, New York, is the winner of the sixth John Gutmann Photography Fellowship. The Fellowship selects an emerging artist in the field of creative photography who exhibits professional accomplishment, serious artistic commitment, and financial need. Along with the prestige and recognition of receiving the award, this year’s fellowship includes a $10,000 prize.

Doug Dubois has created a large body of work throughout his many years as a contemporary photographer. He captures unique and intimate portraitures from locations around the globe. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions at well-known institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design, Getty Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the PARCO gallery in Tokyo, to name only a few. He has also been widely published for his editorial pictures in the New York Times Magazine and London’s Telegraph Magazine.  His work can also be seen in many public collections and other publications as well. Mr. Dubois has lectured extensively and has also received other grants and fellowships such as the Light Work Grant in Photography and the Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently assistant professor of art photography at Syracuse University, New York. Samples of his work are available on his website at www.dougdubois.com.

The world-renowned artist, John Gutmann, who passed away in 1998, established the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Trust at The San Francisco Foundation. Gutmann began his career in Berlin during the early 1930s and emigrated to San Francisco when the Nazis banned his exhibitions and forbade him to teach. For more than 60 years thereafter, he was a recognized presence in the cultural life of San Francisco as a painter, educator, collector, and, most prominently, as an international photographer. He had exhibited in numerous institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland). He also taught at San Francisco State University over a 37 year period until his retirement in 1973. He founded the department of photography in 1946, one of the first on a college campus.