Wednesday, February 19, 2014

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM ~







Imogen Cunningham and Twinka (Thiebaud) at Yosemite (1974)
 photo : Judy Dater



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Born in Portland, Oregon in 1883, Imogen Cunningham bought her first camera when she was eighteen years old — a 4 x 5 inch view finder — although she lost interest with her first fling as a photographer, she picked the camera up again in 1906 after an encounter with the work of Gertrude Kasebier. By the next year she was working with ethnologist and photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis in his Seattle studio. A life of photography ensued — brilliant botanical pieces, nudes, portraits, wild and industrial landscapes. A fascinating long life, the photographer passed away in San Francisco in 1973.


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Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley 1953







Edward Weston and Charis Wilson Weston at Point Lobos, 1945





 

Self-portrait in 1863 Costume, 1909







Black and white lilies 2, 1920s







 Callas, 1925





 

Dream Walking, 1968







Frida Kahlo Rivera, 1931







Kenneth Rexroth, Poet, and Mariana Rexroth, 1953







Martha Graham 2, 1931







Cary Grant, Actor, 1932







Evan Connell, Writer, 1956






 Imogen!







Ruth Asawa, Sculptor, 1963







Self-Portrait With Grandchildren in Funhouse, 1955







Sherwood Anderson and Elizabeth Prall, about 1923







The Poet and His Alter Ego, 1962

(james broughton)







Zebra, about 1921







My Father at Ninety, 1956







Navaho Rug, 1968







Self-Portrait With Morris Graves 1, 1973







The Dream, 1910







Tree at Donner Pass, 1925







Wynn Bullock, Photographer, 1966



http://www.imogencunningham.com/