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 ...

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 ...

Photographing a magnolia blossom, Imogen Cunningham once said, was “the most common job I ever did.” In the sprawling, illuminating retrospective of her work on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you get a chance to make it over snowy Snoqualmie Pass, you may want to visit the newest exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum, “Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective.” This is the photographer’s first ...

Raised in Seattle and educated at the UW, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) wasn t just a pioneering female photographer, but a venerable member of the American avant garde. Sixty images from SAM s ...

A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the late sixties through awards, honorary degrees and ...