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Edward Hopper’s Women Seattle Weekly, WA - Nov 19, 2008 Complementary photos from Imogen Cunningham, Danny Lyons, Walker Evans, and others demonstrate Hopper’s durable eye. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., ...

Hopper's observations evoke questions HeraldNet, WA - Nov 28, 2008 ... most recognizable work, supplemented by a selection of photographs by Hopper's contemporaries, including Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn.

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Imogen Cunningham: On the Body

A bold statement for her to make, even when limited to the photographic nude. Earlier photos of people without clothes generally served scientific purposes (like Muybridge's), or salacious ones. The artistic, even abstract photographic nude may in fact be Cunningham's invention.

This samples Cunningham's career, from 1906 to 1976, from age 23 to the year of her death. That artistic longevity, if nothing else, is worthy of note. But the real strngth of the collection is in the photos themselves.

Imogen Cunningham: Portraiture

by: Richard Lorenz
The superb essay by Richard Lorenz explains the genesis of Ms. Cunningham's career, the influences on her work, how her styles developed, how she sought work, and the challenges that she faced as a person and as an artist. The essay is of such quality that it raises the overall value of the book. Two of Ms. Cunningham's weaknesses were tendencies to misuse shadow and to blur where clarity would have worked better. Many of the images in this book are marred by these routine flaws. On the other hand, there are enough rewarding works to make owning this volume a treat.

Imogen Cunningham: Ideas without End A Life and Photographs

by: Richard Lorenz
Ideas Without End provides a great introduction to Imogen Cunningham's work. It includes a short biography, but focuses mainly on the plethora of beautiful pictures, showing a wide selection of them. Cunningham's photos are the kind that draw you into them, and bring you to the realization that a flower is so much more than just a flower, that there is more to a body than just nudity, and that everyday items possess a beauty of their own. The format is a bit unhandy, but the contents more than make up for that.

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

by: Imogen Cunningham
The introduction by Margery (sp?) Mara is an insightful, readable biographic sketch as well as an introduction to Cunningham's major works. She provides some descriptions of the photographer's changing visual philospophy as well as a personal characterization that illuminates many of the photos, which are faithfullly reproduced. The visual impact of the photos is tremendous. The character of the subjects portrayed shines through

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