Carl PerutZ
Our Mission
Subjects including Marilyn Monroe, Helen Keller, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Durante, Roland Petit & Jeanmaire, Robert Capa, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others are part of a diverse photography collection. This collection is housed in various permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and the Lincoln Center archives, which are all associated with a prominent photographic agency.
Our Expertise
Carl Perutz took photographs from the 1920s through the 1970s, creating a diverse photography collection that included a spectrum of topics such as war, peace, birth, and death. After joining the U.S. Army shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he rose to the rank of Captain through his work with a photographic agency, conducting aerial reconnaissance in B17s over North Africa, France, and Germany.
After the war, he moved to Paris, where he met Robert Capa and joined the renowned photographic agency, Magnum. This agency gained fame partly for being the first to allow its artists to retain copyright to their images. Unlike Capa, Carl had experienced enough combat by 1946, so he shifted his focus to capturing a diverse photography collection featuring artists from literature, the visual arts, the stage, and the screen. Among his various subjects, working with Helen Keller provided him with his most powerful experience. Nevertheless, it is his photographs of Marilyn Monroe for which he is becoming best remembered.
Memories Preserved: Perutz.net Photo Gallery
