Imogen cunningham

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Imogen Cunningham Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography and industrial landscapes. In 1906, while studying at...

Imogen Cunningham. Glacial Lily. 1927. Gelatin silver print. 8 3/8 × 7 1/4

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Imogen Cunningham: Amaryllis Flower, 1933

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Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. Cunningham co-founded Group f/64 in San Francisco with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston as a West Coast answer to … Continue reading "Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s"

Imogen Cunningham, Hands of Dr. Leo Keoshian, 1973

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Imogen Cunningham In Moonlight, 1911

Description Imogen Cunningham made seemingly simple photographs from elements in the vicinity of her home environment. During the 1920s and 1930s, informed by the straight photography ethos that inspired Edward Weston and other members of Group f/64, of which she was a charter member, Cunningham created stark, geometrically styled close-ups of plants that are visually arresting. The photographer’s earlier allegiance to soft-focus portraits and allegorical woodland themes are nowhere evident…

Rose, 1989

How is it that a photographer as prolific and beloved as Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) is hardly known outside of photographic circles? Perhaps one of her greatest attributes was the key: versatility. The public knows her Californian comrade Ansel Adams for his soaring landscapes and Edward Weston for his sensual peppers. But the irrepressible Imogen did

Hands and Aloe Plicatilis, 1960; Imogen Cunningham

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