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Imogen
Cunningham: Ideas without End A Life and Photographs
by Richard Lorenz
Paperback from Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811803570
From bold, evocative nudes to starkly beautiful still lifes, Imogen
Cunningham's pioneering work has garnered worldwide acclaim. One of the
first women to make her living as a photographer, Cunningham consistently
experimented with a wide range of techniques during her remarkable career.
Ideas without End offers the first complete retrospective of 100
of her photographs -- the majority of which have never been published --
from her earliest efforts at the turn of the century to the many now-famous
images. A biographical essay by Richard Lorenz, a chronology of Cunningham's
life and work, and a bibliography are also included in this superb collection,
at once a beautiful portfolio and an enduring tribute to a gifted and compelling
artist. |
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Imogen
Cunningham 1883 - 1976
by Imogen Cunningham, Richard Lorenz, Manfred Heiting
Hardcover from Taschen
ISBN: 3822871826
This title collects the best of photographer Imogen Cunningham's work.
Spanning all the genres used in her work, the book presents the images
which marked Cunningham as one of the early pioneers of the photographic
medium from her 1920's plant images to her speciality, portraiture. |
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Imogen
Cunningham: A portrait
by Imogen;Dater, Judy;Imogen Cunningham Trust Cunningham
Hardcover from New York Graphic Society
ISBN: 0821207512
First Edition
60, full page photos by Cunningham from Ansel Adams, Gertrude Stein,
Cary Grant, nudes, still lifes, common people, Frida Kahlo |
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Imogen
Cunningham: On the Body
by Richard Lorenz
Paperback from Bulfinch
This volume presents an overview of Imogen Cunningham's figure studies
dating from 1906 through to 1976, the year of her death. Although the majority
of the included photos date from the 1920s and 1930s, her later work in
this genre continued to be compelling and provocative. An illustrated essay
discusses Cunningham's interest in the human form, influences on her work
and comparable images by other photographers. Text illustrations include
work by a wide range of contempories and the book also includes a chronology
of Cunningham's life and a selected bibliography. Imogen Cunningham was
a pioneer of 20th-century photography, an artist whose work significantly
contributed to the acceptance of the medium as an art form. She devoted
her life to her craft and photographed continuously and passionately for
over 70 years. Her images of the body explore the human form in great detail:
eyes, ears, heads, hands, breasts, feet. The sensuous forms she photographed
are sculpted by brilliant sunlight and reveal both the universal and the
unique aspects of the body. Many of her images have become well-known and
popular icons in the history of art.
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 |
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Imogen
Cunningham: Flora
Paperback from Bulfinch
ISBN: 0821227319
As one of the greatest women photographers of the century, Imogen Cunningham
(1883-1976) photographed nature with a celebratory spirit while retaining
a firm dedication to photographic technique. Her childhood fascination
with the beauty and complexities of nature led her to photograph all kinds
of plant life, from simple flower arrangements to elaborate compositions
of exotic ferns and lilies. This collection of black-and-white botanical
images spans 55 years of work and development. The images are accompanied
by a biocritical essay by Richard Lorenz, noted photography curator and
writer, placing Cunningham's work in the context of her contemporaries
and colleagues: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Johan Hagemeyer and many other
premiere photographers of the botanical world. To complete the celebration
of the plant world, the book includes technical notes on illustrated plant
species, a chronology and a selected bibliography. |
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After
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Paperback from Univ of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295956739
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Imogen
Cunningham: Portraiture
by Richard Lorenz
Paperback from Bulfinch
Imogen Cunningham was one of photography's early pioneers, a Seattle-based
virtuoso whose portraits and still lifes helped establish the medium as
an art form. During the 1920's Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and
a handful of others established f/64, an informal group of West coast photographers
whose emphasis on formal composition, crisp image detail, static subject
matter and straightforward printing became the dominant photographic aesthetic
of the time. This volume, the companion to "Imogen Cunningham: Flora",
collects the best of Cunningham's portrait work - nearly 100 images, more
than half of which have never been published before including a number
of self-portraits as well as the compelling faces of family and friends.
An illustrated essay accompanying the plates discusses Cunningham's approach
to portraiture, influences on her work, and comparable work by other important
photographers. |
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Imogen
Cunningham Portraiture
by Richard Lorenz (Designer), Imogen Cunningham (Photographer)
(Paperback -- May )
Imogen
Cunningham
by Imogen Cunningham, et al
(Hardcover -- May 10, )
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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
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
)
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Cunningham: Ideas without End A Life and Photographs
by Richard Lorenz
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Cunningham 1883 - 1976
by Imogen Cunningham, Richard Lorenz, Manfred Heiting
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Cunningham: A portrait
by Judy Dater
Hardcover from New York Graphic Society
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Cunningham: Flora
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After
Ninety
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Cunningham: The Poetry of Form/Die Poesie Der Form (German Edition)
by Imogen Cunningham, Pradip Malde, P. Celina Lunsford
Hardcover from Edition Stemmle
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by Imogen Cunningham
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Imogen
Cunningham: Portraiture
by Richard Lorenz
Imogen Cunningham was one of photography's early pioneers, a Seattle-based
virtuoso whose portraits and still lifes helped establish the medium as
an art form. During the 1920's Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and
a handful of others established f/64, an informal group of West coast photographers
whose emphasis on formal composition, crisp image detail, static subject
matter and straightforward printing became the dominant photographic aesthetic
of the time. This volume, the companion to "Imogen Cunningham: Flora",
collects the best of Cunningham's portrait work - nearly 100 images, more
than half of which have never been published before including a number
of self-portraits as well as the compelling faces of family and friends.
An illustrated essay accompanying the plates discusses Cunningham's approach
to portraiture, influences on her work, and comparable work by other important
photographers.
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