A woman said to me when she first sat down, You’re photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
Imogen Cunningham Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 12th April, 1883 |
| Death: | 24th June, 1976 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Photographer |
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Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1883. In 1901, at the age of eighteen, Cunningham bought her first camera, a 4x5 inch view camera, from the American School of Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She soon lost interest and sold the camera to a friend. It wasn’t until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, that she was inspired by an encounter with the work of Gertrude Käsebier, to take up photography again.
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