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...THIS disregard for "what the world looks like" that many visitors to "Photography Unlimited" will no doubt find disturbing and even offensive. Those who admire the documentary realism of Edward Weston, Eugene Smith and Paul Strand--artists who sought the "perfect negative"--may find Karen Truax's handcolored photographs of surrealistic landscapes or James Friedman's mixed media collage made of multiple images of a woman's face, a hammer and a broken window, irritatingly enigmatic and uncommunicative...
...first photography course cost 15 dollars at the International Correspondence school in Scranton, Pa. But her associates would come to include such major photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. Hilton Kramer of the New 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...
...also hit the big time when some nude photographs of her husband raised hell in Seattle in 1915. Or in 1926, when Edward Weston wrote to her about her print "Glacial Lily:" "This is fine! It is the best thing in the show, Imogen, and if you keep up to that standard, you will be one of a handful of important photographers in America--or anywhere." Her reaction to his praise is typical for her: "Of course, I had been photographing for twenty-five years." In 1931, Martha Graham called Imogen "the only photographer before whom I can create...
...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. Now, 45 years since the f/64 Group disbanded, Imogen...
...captains are: Dan Williams of Milton, baseball; Blair Brooks of Weston, heavyweight crew; Todd Howard of Clarence, N.Y., lightweight crew; Steve McConnell of Winchester and Tom Yellin of Memphis, Tenn., golf; Jim Quinn and Leroy Thompson of Baltimore, Md., lacrosse; John Ingard of Lincoln, tennis; and Blayne Heckel of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Steve Niemi of Pullman, Wash., track and field...