Great black and white photographer part 2

Imogen Cunningham

1883 April 12 Portland, Oregon is when and where Imogen was born. she was in art lessons every summer thanks to her father Issac burns Cunningham. When Imogen attended the university of Washington in Seattle her chemistry professor suggested she'd need scientific background to be a photographer. after graduation Imogen had worked for Edward S. Curtis, the producer of the twenty volumes of "The North American Indian", where she had learned the techniques of platinum printing. 

In the 1920's Imogen turned to family and friends nudes and studies of plants from her garden. Her floral images soon became her most praise images. Imogen was inspired by Gertrude Kasebier to become a photographer in 1901. Imogen had a child named Gryffyd, he was born on December 18, 1915. During the second pregnancy she moved to California.

In the 1920s Imogen went from plants to humans. Imogen and her husband got divorced because she got offered work in New York and her husband wanted her to wait so they could travel together but she refused. 1940s is when Imogen did street photography. Imogen died at 93 on June 24 in 1976 in San Francisco California.





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