Word: imogen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photographs that were organized, beautifully composed. Strand was the turning point. I came home thinking, 'Now photography exists!' " Soon afterward he met Edward Weston and saw his work. What came out of these meetings was Group f/64, formed in San Francisco in 1932, consisting chiefly of Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke and Adams...
Similar stories of steep appreciation can be told about the work of almost every other major 20th century photographer: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Diane Arbus and Imogen Cunningham, among the dead; Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Paul Caponigro, and Fashion Photographers Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among the living. The great pictures of the 19th century are more expensive still. Last May two albums containing 100 early California and Oregon scenes by Carleton E. Watkins were sold for $198,000. "A print is amusing at $100," quips one art dealer...
...Imogen Cunningham, through Nov. 6 Amazing photographs by an amazing woman. Cunningham's sensitivity to pattern, form and light, and her mastery of photographic technique, make ordinary rocks into intricate mysteries...
...conception of drama that "Greek Lady, 1959" shows. Her recent portraits have left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham to see her elfed in this very miniature lens. Ezra Pound's hands, large and blurred between his knees in front of the camera, couldn't be frozen...
...Died. Imogen Cunningham, 93, photographer whose work spans eight decades; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Cunningham got started with a correspondence course in photography as a high school student, opened her own portrait studio in 1910 and kept on track as a young mother in the 1920s, photographing the flowers in her garden. Her portraits, nudes, surrealistic juxtapositions and sensual studies of plants have been seen in scores of shows. She won a Guggenheim fellowship when she was 86 and was still working this year...