Research Catalog

Title

Imogen Cunningham : a retrospective / Paul Martineau ; with contributions by Susan Ehrens.

Author

Martineau, Paul, 1967-

Publication

• Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Trust Publications, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ehrens, Susan
• J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution.
• Seattle Art Museum, host institution.

Description

ix, 245 pages : illustrations (some color), plates; 28 cm

Summary

Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating a large and diverse body of work that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and commitment to the medium. An early feminist and inspiration to future generations, Cunningham intensely engaged with Pictorialism and Modernism; genres of portraiture, landscape, the nude, still life, and street photography; and themes such as flora, dancers and music, hands, and the elderly. Organized chronologically, this volume explores the full range of the artist's life and career. It contains nearly two hundred color images of Cunningham's elegant, poignant, and groundbreaking photographs, both renowned and lesser known, including several that have not been published previously. Essays draw on primary sources at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, the Cunningham papers at the Archives of American Art, and contributing author Susan Ehrens's personal interviews with the artist's associates, incorporating a selection of letters, family albums, and other intimate materials to enrich readers' understanding of Cunningham's motivations and work.

Subject

• Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976 > Exhibitions
• Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Photobooks.

Note

• Exhibition: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (15.09.2020-10.01.2021) / Seattle Art Museum, USA (11.02-23.05.2021).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Paul Martineau -- The marriage of art and science / Susan Ehrens -- Revisiting a modernist pioneer / Susan Ehrens -- The light within / Paul Martineau.

Call Number

JQF 21-154

ISBN

• 9781606066751
• 1606066757

OCLC

1164379948

Author

Martineau, Paul, 1967- author.

Title

Imogen Cunningham : a retrospective / Paul Martineau ; with contributions by Susan Ehrens.

Publisher

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Trust Publications, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ehrens, Susan, author.

J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution.

Seattle Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-154