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...Imogen Cunningham is ninety-one years old. She lives in San Francisco. For seventy-three years she has made a living taking photographs. "I've lived so long and stayed with photography so long that people are curious about what makes me tick," she has said. "I suppose that by the time most people are my age, they have it made. Maybe it's the lack of money that pushes me along. I've always worked for money, and I've always had fun doing it. People often marvel at me, 'I don't know how you keep so busy...
...York Times says that "Like Paul Strand's, her work has a double claim on our attention. It belongs to history and at the same time it is part of the contemporary scene. On both counts, it is of exceptional interest." In the past year, Imogen Cunningham has had one-woman shows at both the Metropolitan Museum and New York's prestigious Witkin gallery. Last spring, the University of Washington Press published a new collection of her work, entitled Imogen!. Imogen Cunningham has hit the big time...
...this is to show that Imogen Cunningham has been a very good photographer for a very long time. She is a portraitist. In the mid-1920s, influenced by the photographs of Paul Strand, she did a series of intense studies of plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing...
...Marjorie Cunningham El Paso...
Carrying the Fire displays less tolerance for some of the others, notably the Apollo 7 crew: "Wally [Schirra] was late every morning, never apologized, and never tried to catch up with the schedule but wasted instead another 45 minutes on guffaws, coffee and war stories . . . [Walt] Cunningham bitched constantly, at Wally and the world, and [Donn] Eisele served as a good-natured referee who didn't quite understand what was going on half the time...