Imogen Cunningham (
April 12 1883 -
June 24 1976) was an
American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.Cunningham was born in
Portland, Oregon. In 1901, at the age of 18, 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 Kasebier to take up photography again. With the help of her chemistry professor, Dr. Horace Byers, she began to study the chemistry behind photography; she subsidized her tuition by photographing plants for the botany department.
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