Friday, September 27, 2013

Imogen Cunningham pre-assignment post

  Imogen Cunningham was born April 12, 1883 in Portland Oregon and died June 24, 1976 in San Francisco California. She was married to Roi George Partridge and had three children, Rondal, Gryffyd, and Padraic Partridge. She bought her first camera when she was eighteen at the American School of Art in Scranton PA. When she graduated in 1907 she went to work for Edward S. Curtis in his Seattle studio. By 1914 she had her own studio and her portraits were portrayed at An International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in New York. In 1920 Her family moved to San Francisco and she taught at Mills College. Then in 1945 Cunningham was invited by Ansel Adams to accept a job at the California School of Fine Arts in their photography department.
   Throughout her Career she did many different genres of photography such as the pictures below.
File:Mather and Weston Imogen Cunningham 1922.jpg

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