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
american-photographer human people
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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.
people turns humans
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
thinking hands people
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
people late
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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.
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.
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.
thinking should-have world
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
america kind photograph
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.