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
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.
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.
believe views individual
I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.
jobs faces portraits
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
book interesting people
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
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.
doe
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
men hollywood ugly
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
photography jobs thinking
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
photography teaching thinking
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
photography portraiture fascinating
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
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.
inspirational photography shooting
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.