My Father at Ninety
1936
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
© (1936), 2009 Imogen Cunningham Trust