Background
Kurt Hutton, born Kurt Hübschmann was born in 1893 in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
Kurt Hutton, born Kurt Hübschmann was born in 1893 in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
Kurt Hutton studied law at the University of Oxford, England, and was a self-taught photographer.
Kurt Hutton served as a cavalry officer during World War I. In that year he left the service because of tuberculosis, and recovered at a sanatorium in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
In 1923 Kurt Hutton became a portrait photographer in partnership with Frau Engelhardt, and in 1930 started photographing for Dephot and Weltrundschau. In 1934 he served as a photographer for Weekly Illustrated, then went to work as a photographer for Picture Post in 1938, remaining there until the magazine's demise in 1957.
He spent the last decade of his life living in Aldeburgh where he photographed for Benjamin Britten.
Quotes from others about the person
In Creative Camera Yearbook, 1976, Colin Osman stated: "Kurt Hutton was one of the few building a new concerned journalism,- he brought to it integrity and charity."
