Imogen
Cunningham Portraiture
by Richard Lorenz (Designer), Imogen Cunningham (Photographer)
(Paperback -- May 2001)
Imogen
Cunningham
by Imogen Cunningham, et al
(Hardcover -- May 10, 2001)
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Imogen
Cunningham: Ideas Without End: A Life and Photographs
by Richard Lorenz
Paperback: 160 pages
Chronicle Books; ISBN: 0811803570; (August 1993)
Flora
by Imogen Cunningham
Paperback - 160 pages (May 2001)
Bulfinch Press; ISBN: 0821227319
Imogen
Cunningham: The Modernist Years (Masterphoto)
by Imogen Cunningham (Photographer), Richard Lorenz (Designer)
(Hardcover -- December 1993)
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Imogen Cunningham : On the Body
by Imogen Cunningham (Photographer), Richard Lorenz
It's hard to imagine a young woman born in 1883, in the middle of the
repressive Victorian era, who possessed absolutely none of the prissy,
small-minded modesty of the 19th century. But that is Imogen Cunningham
at age 23 in 1906, shooting a nude self-portrait in which "the smooth skin
of her shoulders, derrière, and legs glows within the darker context"
of the weedy landscape where she is sprawled. There is no artifice about
the picture, but her pale form is nonetheless transformed into a "floating
arcadian Venus," as author Richard Lorenz aptly describes the image. Most
of Cunningham's nudes are identified by name: John Bovington 2, Eye of
Portia Hume, Jane Foster, Lake Tenaya, as if to say, "I have used this
body, but it belongs to its owner." To one nude model she wrote, "Aperture
is putting out a monograph on my work, and YOU are in it. I did not ask
you because I know that when you are a work of art, so called, you are
no longer yourself." This is Lorenz's fourth book of carefully selected
Cunningham photographs, and its subject gives it special resonance. (It
includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.) In it, Lorenz quotes
a last snippet of Cunningham's writing, found among her papers after she
died, at 94: "For it is in this inadequate flesh that each of us must serve
his dream, and so, must fail in the dream's service." Even into her 90s,
Cunningham continued to love and limn the human body, creating uncommonly
frank, deeply humane works of genius. --Peggy Moorman - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 160 pages
Bulfinch Press; ISBN: 0821224387; (November 1998)
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