1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1883–1976 · UNITED STATES
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
- Born
- 1883
- Died
- 1976
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1925Magnolia Blossom
- 1925Two Callas
WHY THEY MATTER
Member of Group f/64; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Guggenheim Fellow; exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
THE LIFE
Cunningham bought her first camera, a 4 by 5 inch view camera, by mail order in 1901 at eighteen. She became known for botanical photographs, nudes and industrial landscapes. She was a member of Group f/64 in California, which favoured sharp, direct photographs of simple subjects. She kept working into her nineties.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
4x5 inch view camera
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia