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"Imogen Cunningham"
Photographed by g. Paul Bishop, '62
No. 3
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Imogen
Cunningham
1883 - 1976
Photographer
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Photographer;
born in Portland, Ore. She took a degree in chemistry from the
University of Washington: Seattle and then went to work in the
Seattle studio of Edward Curtis. After eight years assisting
Curtis, she went to Dresden, Germany, to study photographic
chemistry (1909-10), then returned to Seattle to set up her own
commercial portraiture studio. She and her husband [Roi
Partridge] moved to San Francisco in 1917 (they had
three children and were divorced in the 1930s) and there she
spent most of the rest of her life; she continued working until
only a week before her death. She was a founding member of Group
f/64, which had its first exhibit at the M. H. de Young Memorial
Museum (San Francisco) in 1932, and her work was often shown in
galleries and museums throughout the U.S.A. Working in the
realistic or "Straight" school of Ansel Adams and
Edward Weston, she was not
especially a technical innovator but she is admired for her
sharply focused black-and-white images, particularly her
portrait and her nature studies.
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_____. Imogen
Cunningham." biography.com
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