(1891-1966)
American
Born: born, Missouri, died, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Otto John Gaul was a photographer from Buffalo, New York, born in Missouri in 1891. He was employed by S. S. Kresge Company in Buffalo in the 1920s and 1930s. When he was twelve he became interested in photography and during his college years, he did part-time portraiture. During World War I he served as an aerial and topographical photographer abroad. He exhibited photographs at the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo in November, 1930, and was one of the charter members of the Photographers Society of America founded in 1934. He also collaborated with Ethelyn Pratt Cobb (1884-1973) on photographs in Europe. He died in 1966 in Los Angeles, CA.