As a young art student and photographer in San Francisco in the mid-’70s, Arthur Ollman took a leap and called one of his heroes, Imogen Cunningham, straight out of the phone book. To his surprise, ...

Pioneering female photographer Imogen Cunningham was a true iconoclast. We'll talk with Cunningham's granddaughter about her grandmother's life and work, including Cunningham's collection of botanical ...

Sometime late in Imogen Cunningham’s life, a younger female photographer asked her, “What do I have to do to become more famous, to have my work appreciated?” “You have to live longer,” Cunningham ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Take a day trip to the Columbia Museum of Art to peek the newest exhibition, Seen & Unseen, ...

Portraitist, street photographer, social commentator, flower and industrial architecture expert, chronicler of cultural icons, Imogen Cunningham has been referred to as "the grandmother of photography ...

Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born in 1883; in that same year, a car first traveled across the Brooklyn Bridge, the deadly Krakatoa volcano exploded over the Sunda Strait, and a train, later ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Last week, the centennial of the passage of the 19th ...

In Imogen Cunningham's "Ruth Asawa, Sculptor," (1952) the Japanese-American sculptor is front and center. Asawa's serious gaze is focused somewhere off-camera, with her body almost blending into the ...

Born in 1883. Had a gig in Edward S. Curtis' studio. One of the first women photographers to shoot a nude self-portrait. Published male nudes (of her husband) that caused controversy. Had her first ...

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One hundred and four years ago, a University of Washington undergrad purchased a 4 x 5-inch camera and developed photographs in the family’s woodshed, which her father had converted into a makeshift ...