Imogen Cunningham: Portraiture - Softcover

Lorenz, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821227327 ISBN 13: 9780821227329

Publisher: Bulfinch, 2001

Synopsis

Portraiture presents the artists first love and photographic speciality.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Lorenz is one of the foremost experts on Imogen Cunningham as well as the author of three previous books and eight exhibition catalogues on her work.

From Booklist:

Cunningham (1883^-1976) made portraits of some of the century's most interesting artists, actors, and writers. Her admirers have long waited, however, for a book adequately showcasing her range as a portraitist and reproducing some of the hundreds of less-familiar portraits in her archives. Lorenz deserves high praise for ending the wait by bringing 220 intelligently chosen and sequenced plates to light. He contributes an informative essay, too, that takes Cunningham very seriously, as not everyone else has done, including herself, for she had a wry, self-deprecating humor and declined to self-mythologize. The "problem" with Cunningham was her versatility. She is not easy to categorize as a portraitist, for she had no formulas and responded to each subject freshly, posing them, carefully or candidly, sometimes in sunlight; sometimes in soft, controlled light; sometimes up close; and sometimes in a telling environment. Consistent are her genuine interest in each person's uniqueness, her strong sense of design, and her ability to use light dramatically. Even collections including every other Cunningham book should add this one. Gretchen Garner

About this edition

• Publisher: Bulfinch
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0821227327
• ISBN 13: 9780821227329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200