My Father at Ninety

1936

American, 1883-1976

Around 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.

Gelatin silver print

9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (24.1 x 18.7 cm)

Gift of John H. Hauberg

89.32

Not currently on view

Resources

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, 1996

Published ReferencesLusford, Celina, Marisa C. Sanchez, et al. "Imogen Cunningham." Madrid: TF Editores and Fundacion MAPFRE, 2012, cat. no. 118, pg. 165

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