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
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?
jobs faces portraits
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
jobs people faces
So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
american-photographer human people
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
american-photographer science
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
american-photographer
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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.
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.
mean cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof love-means
I don't know what love means.
class students
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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.
waiting knows about-success
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
artist desire portraits
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.