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Fundación Mapfre Imogen Cunningham
American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) is known for her botanical photography, nudesand portraits. This publication, accompanying the first major international museum exhibition of Cunningham's work since the 1990s, shows the dimension of this pioneer in modernist photography and offers new insight into pictures that continue to surprise and inspire us due to their complex perspectives and themes. It covers her entire artistic career, spanning more than 70 years. There are revealing abstract shots of plants and nudes, optical illusions created using techniques such as inverted positive/negative images and double exposure, as well as many of Cunnigham's iconic portraits of artists, dancers, actors, musicians and great thinkers of the 20th century. "Some still consider her as just the California West-Coast woman photographer who made nudes and flower studies. This project aims at informing otherwise and stimulating new interpretations. (...) This selection of 200 photographs, although a mere glimpse of her scope of production, is based on an attempt to reveal the richness of her interconnected vision and the way she approached her subjects. In this spirit, this publication contains a large number of her works that has rar
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Imogen Cunningham
Introduction
Cunningham took up photography in 1901. From 1907 to 1909 she worked in the studio of Edward S. Curtis in Seattle, Washington where she learned the platinum process. She then studied photographic chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany from 1909-1910. In 1910, Cunningham set up her own studio in Seattle which ran until 1916. One year later she moved to San Francisco, again setting up a studio. After meeting Edward Weston, Cunningham joined the pictorialist group of photographers in 1923 and adopted 'straight photography'. During the 1920s she shot her famous group series of plants and flowers. Cunningham was a founding member of the Group f/64 in San Francisco.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, photographer, publicist
ULAN identifier
500115187
Names
Imogen Cunningham, Imogen Partridge, Imogen Cunningham Partridge
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Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed February 19, 2025.
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