Self-Portrait on Geary Street
1958
Throughout 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.
Gelatin silver print
Image h.: 8 in.
Image w.: 6 1/2 in.
Sheet h.: 9 15/16 in.
.i W.: 7 15/16 in.
Gift of John H. Hauberg
88.11