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Gutterman, Irene
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- Irene Vermeers
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Dates of existence
1912 April 2 - 2008 October 9
History
Working as the school photographer to help pay tuition, Gutterman (PHOT 1937) documented Art Center’s faculty, students, student work and classes across all academic departments. A number of her images appeared in the 1937 catalog. In the early 2000s, Vermeers donated over 200 of her original prints and negatives to Art Center. Her collection contains some of the earliest photographs we have in our College Archives and serves as an excellent document of the 7th Street era. In addition, she donated her original camera and tripod that she used as a student. It was at Art Center that Irene met her future husband, Art Vermeers, who studied industrial design. They married after graduating, and went on to start a family. Irene Vermeers died at the age of 96 in October 2008. (Excerpted from the Dotted Line blog, March 7, 2012: http://blogs.artcenter.edu/dottedline/2012/03/07/irene-vermeers-art-centers-first-school-photographer/)
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PHOT 1937