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
photography portraiture fascinating
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
photography jobs thinking
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
photography thinking people
I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.
photography eye giving
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.
resent
I don't resent anything.
creative photographer do-you-know
I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?
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.
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?
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.