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.
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.
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.
thinking should-have world
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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.
america kind photograph
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.