Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976), Mills College Amphitheater

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  Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976)
  
  Mills College Amphitheater, 1920, posthumously printed in 1990 by Rondal Partridge. Dry stamp from the Imogen Cunningham Trust l.r., signed and dated by Rondal Partridge in ink on a label from the Trust affixed to the mount verso. Gelatin silver print, image size 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (24.1 x 32.1 cm), framed.
  Condition: Good.
  
  N.B. Inspired by the photographer Gertrude Käsebier, Imogen Cunningham began making photographs at the turn of the twentieth century and had a storied career that spanned a large swath of the history of photography. Her early works focused on allegorical studies styled in a Pictorialist manner that included many of the artists in her circle as models. Best known for highly detailed botanical studies in the 1920s, Cunningham turned to Modernism and was a founding member of Group f/64, an association of West Coast photographers that embraced the mechanical characteristics of the camera. Impossible to pigeonhole, she continued to evolve her photographic practice. In the 1930s Cunningham produced intimate portraits of artists for Vanity Fair and in the 1950s she turned to street photography. Self-portraiture was present throughout the entirety of her career, and she continued to photograph into her 90s.

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  Condition: Frame size 16 3/8 x 20 3/8 in. (41.6 x 51.7 cm).
  
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