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Imogen Cunningham - A Retrospective

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Imogen Cunningham - A Retrospective presents a comprehensive exploration of the celebrated American photographer's extensive career, spanning diverse genres like portraiture, landscape, and still life. This beautifully produced volume features nearly two hundred colour photographs, including rare and unpublished works, complemented by insightful essays drawing on intimate letters and archives that illuminate Cunningham's artistic journey and pioneering role as an early feminist in photography.
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This richly illustrated catalogue is ideal for enthusiasts of photography, feminist art history, and 20th-century American arts and culture. It serves both scholars and general readers interested in the evolution of photographic art and the legacy of a pioneering female artist.

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Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years.

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Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham’s work in over thirty-five years.

Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating a large and diverse body of work that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and commitment to the medium. An early feminist and inspiration to future generations, Cunningham intensely engaged with Pictorialism and Modernism; genres of portraiture, landscape, the nude, still life, and street photography; and themes such as flora, dancers and music, hands, and the elderly.

Organized chronologically, this volume explores the full range of the artist’s life and career. It contains nearly two hundred colour images of Cunningham’s elegant, poignant, and groundbreaking photographs, both renowned and lesser known, including several that have not been published previously. Essays by Paul Martineau and Susan Ehrens draw from extensive primary source material such as letters, family albums, and other intimate materials to enrich readers’ understanding of Cunningham’s motivations and work.

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    Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham’s work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating a large and diverse body of work that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and commitment to the medium. An early feminist and...
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Critics praise this retrospective for offering a rare, complete view of Cunningham's oeuvre and her impact on 20th-century photography. Alex Greenberger of ARTnews calls it "a rare complete picture," while Richard B. Woodward of Collector Daily highlights Cunningham's spirit as "a beloved, tough, industrious, and supremely independent photographer." The scholarly insights bring unexpected revelations, according to Peggy Roalf of DART: Design Arts Daily. The Guardian notes how Cunningham paved the way for many female artists by choosing photography in the early 1900s.

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ISBN: 9781606066751

Publisher: Getty Trust Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 September 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Getty Publications

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 249.0mm

Height: 284.0mm

Weight: 1642g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Paul Martineau has been a curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum for over fifteen years. Among the many books he has authored are Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography (2018), Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs (2016), Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit (2014), and Herb Ritts: L.A. Style (2012), all from Getty Publications.

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