Peter B. Hutton

Born in Detroit in 1944, the son of a sailor, he signed on at the age of 18 and only later entered the West Coast art scene. He studied painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute. In the seventies he was director of the Canyon Cinema Cooperative for several years. He has taught at Hampshire College, Massachusetts, and Harward University. He lives near New York with his wife and daughter.
"Hutton's beautifully photographed studies of urban and rural landscapes evoke the kind of wonder that must have been generated by the first moving pictures in his day. His incredible black and white photographs allow us to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. He is the most persistent and compelling collector of landscapes since the cinematographic pioneers of the Lumière period." (Jim Hoberman)

Program
July 1971 In San Francisco... (USA 1970/71, 16mm, 35 Min.)
New York Near Sleep (For Saskia) (USA 1972, 16mm, 10 Min.)
Images of Asian Music (USA 1973/74, 16mm, 29 Min.)
New York Portrait: Part I (USA 1976/77, 16mm, 16 Min.)
Boston Fire (USA 1980/81, 16mm, 8 Min.)
New York Portrait: Part II (USA 1980/81, 16mm, 15 Min.)
Landscape (For Manon) (USA 1986/87, 16mm, 15 MIn.)
Budapest Portrait (Memories Of A City) (USA 1984-86, 16mm, 30 Min.)
New York Portrait: Part III (USA 1990, 16mm, 15 Min.)
In Titan's Goblet (USA 1991, 16mm, 10 Min.)
Lodz Symphony (USA 1992-93, 16mm, 20 Min.) 

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