Self-Portrait on Geary Street
Date1958
Maker
Imogen Cunningham
American, 1883-1976
Label TextThroughout Cunningham's seventy-year career she repeatedly turned her lens on herself, producing a number of self-portraits that show the photographer amidst the scene she framed for her camera, as in this photograph. Self-portraits had always interested her. In 1905, as a young woman in her early twenties, Cunningham purchased her first camera, which inspired her to take one of her first self-portraits (reproduced below), a photograph she composed on the University of Washington campus.
Object number88.11
Exhibition HistoryTacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, The Innovative Photography of Imogen Cunningham from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Dec. 15, 1995-Mar. 24, 1996Published References"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 126Credit LineGift of John H. Hauberg
DimensionsImage h.: 8 in.
Image w.: 6 1/2 in.
Sheet h.: 9 15/16 in.
.i W.: 7 15/16 in.
MediumGelatin silver print
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