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Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1883. After graduating from the University of Washington (1907) Cunningham worked with Edward Curtis, a photographer of Native Indians.
In 1909 Cunningham studied photographic chemistry at Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany. When she returned to the United States the following year, she opened her own portrait studio in Seattle. Over the next few years she concentrated on soft-focus photographs.
Cunningham moved to San Francisco in 1917. Her work consisted mainly of plant studies until she met Edward Weston in 1923. Eventually the couple were to join with Ansel Adams to form the Group f/64. The group became associated with sharply focused pictures such as Cunningham's Two Callas (1929). In 1932 Cunningham began photographing political figures and Hollywood stars for Vanity Fair.
In the 1960s Cunningham ran a portrait gallery and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She also photographed the beat generation and flower children in San Francisco and published the book, Imogen Cunningham Photographs, 1910-1973 (1974).
In her final years Cunningham began a project to photograph people in their nineties. The book,After Ninety(1977) was published after her death on 24th June, 1976
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Exhibition dates: Ordinal March – 12th June 2022
Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976)
On Mount Rainer
1915
Pt print
18.4 × 23.4cm (7 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.)
Getty Museum
© Imogen Cunningham Trust
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Exhibition dates: 18th November, 2021 – 6th February, 2022
I’m not going to say a lot about the work of the Imogen Cunningham because the quality and breadth of the work speaks for itself. If you are attuned you can feel the strength of her images and imbibe of her sensitivity to subject matter, a sense of actual presence in light and form. For example, the portrait of Gertrude Stein, Writer (1934, below) is a masterpiece of light and form and of … perspicacity and intensity.
“An early feminist and inspiration to future generations, Cunningham engaged intensely with pictorialism and modernism, along with portraiture, landscape photography, the nude, still life and street photography… Under appreciated during her life, Cunningham was an inventive, inspired and prolific photographer who tirelessly explored her chosen medium until her death at the age of 93.”1
“Observing that her “taste lay somewhere between reality and dreamland,” Cunningham knew herself and her style well. The reality is the clarity of the images, and the dreamland could be seen in her abstract perspective.”2
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