Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunninghamwas an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth12 April 1883
CountryUnited States of America
Imogen Cunningham quotes about
couple years darkroom
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
tomorrow best-picture
Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.
faces firsts sides
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
artist certain agree
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
jobs artist people
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
artist historic
Get it out of your historic head.
artist names mind
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
mean cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof love-means
I don't know what love means.
silly people ask-me
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
silly people alive
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
nice doe stories
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
photography art father
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
class students
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
artist desire portraits
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.