My Father at Ninety

Date1936

Label TextAround 1901, Cunningham purchased her first camera-a fifteen-dollar 4 x 5 inch camera she ordered by mail. During that time her father, Isaac Burns Cunningham, built Imogen's first darkroom in a woodshed on their property in Seattle. In this much later portrait of her parent, Imogen frames a humble and respectful view of her aging father seated on the property where that original darkroom had been constructed.

Object number89.32

Photo Credit© (1936), 2009 Imogen Cunningham Trust

Exhibition HistoryTacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, The Innovative Photography of Imogen Cunningham fromt he Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Dec. 15, 1995-Mar. 24, 1996Published ReferencesLusford, Celina, Marisa C. Sanchez, et al. "Imogen Cunningham." Madrid: TF Editores and Fundacion MAPFRE, 2012, cat. no. 118, pg. 165

Credit LineGift of John H. Hauberg

Dimensions9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (24.1 x 18.7 cm)

MediumGelatin silver print