GUTMAN, JUDITH MARA

Judith Mara Gutman is a New York-based author of books on popular and academic topics, and a specialist in the field of social history of photography. Born in New York City in 1928 to Victor and Anna Markowitz, she graduated from Queens College, Flushing NY in 1949 and received her master's degree from Bank Street School of Education, New York, NY in 1950. She married the historian Herbert George Gutman in 1950, and the couple had two children, Marta and Nell.

Gutman's academic career began when she served as an instructor in psychology at University of Wisconsin, Madison and then as a lecturer in education at Hunter College. However, she began to address a wider public audience as an independent scholar after 1960. In the 1990s, she returned to academia, teaching courses on imagery and society at the New School for Social Research. Gutman has presented her work at academic conferences and universities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and is the author of six books.

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