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
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