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...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...
...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...
...Imogen began her work in Seattle at the turn of the century, when pictorial photography was the prevalent style. Her early work was greatly influenced by Gertrude Kasebier, and made much use of soft focus and allegorical subject matter. But by 1930, she had moved far enough away from romanticism to found, along with Adams, Weston and other California photographers, the f/64 Group. Named after a tiny lens opening that keeps almost everything in focus, the f/64 Group reflected the depression age's desire for realism, paralleled the rise of photojournalism and revolutionized photographic styles on the West Coast...