Thread by @karolcummins

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group featuring:

Photographer Imogen Cunningham, was born 1883, in Portland, Oregon, and died 1976, San Francisco, California.

Magnolia Blossom, 1925

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

The Dream (Veiled Woman) by Imogen Cunningham, 1910

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Cunningham is best known for her exquisite magnolias, sculptural nudes and evocative portraiture.

The Dream, 1910

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

As well as her images of plants, flowers and commonly found objects.

Her and Her Shadow breast

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

What I love best about her work is the way in which she highlights the sculptural simplicity of shape and form of her subjects.

Triangles -1928

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Cunningham explored her interest in photography at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Agave Design - Circa 1920s

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Her earliest prints were made in the tradition of Pictorialism style popular at the turn of the century.

Two Callas, Array

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

“Pictorialism emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.”

Magnolia Blossom
(Tower of Jewels)
1925

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

After studying photography at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany, from 1909 to 1910,

Hens and Chickens - circa 1929

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

In 1910, Cunningham opened a portrait studio in Seattle and began building her clientelle.

Martha Graham - 1931

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Her commercial portraiture was straightforward, but she continued to produce soft-focused allegorical prints.

Stan - 1929

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

She married etcher Roi Partridge in 1915, and the couple moved to San Francisco in 1917.

Crown‑Zellerbach Building,
San Francisco
1960

I love the haunted quality of this image.

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunningham🍃

By the early 1920s Cunningham began to change her style, creating close-up, sharply detailed studies of plant life and other natural forms.

Callla - 1925 (Exquisite 🤗)

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunningham

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Her experiments with form allied her with other Modernist photographers at the time.

Jack in the pulpit - 1934 (Breathtaking🤗)

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

In 1932 Cunningham joined the association of West Coast photographers known as Group f.64.

Magnolias

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Like other members of the group, she rejected the soft-focused sentimental subjects that were popular at the time.

Leaves - 1948

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Cunningham created her gorgeous studies of Calla lilies during this time.

Callas - 1927

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Amaryllis

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Magnolia Seed Pod

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Aspen Leaves

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Unknown title

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Nightshade Blossom

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Magnolia Pod (The detail of the filaments are exquisite)

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Imogen & Twinka at Yosemite -1974 by Judy Dater. Imogen Cunningham, encountering nude model Twinka Thiebaud behind a tree in Yosemite National Park

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM
#ImogenCunninghamf64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

The name of the group f.64 is taken from the smallest setting of a large-format camera aperture,

f.64 Group

Ansel Adams - The Moon and Half Dome - Yosemite National Forest

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM
#ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamf64🍃

Which allows for great depth of field and excellent resolution as the film is quite large (4 x 5).

f.64 Group

Ansel Adams - Vernal Falls -1948 Yosemite Narion Oaej

Group f/64 Manifesto (1932)

photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2012/04/group-…

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunningham

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

The original 11 members of Group f.64 were Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke,

f.64 Group

Ansel Adams - Aspen Trees, New Mexico - 1958

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

Henry Swift, John Paul Edwards, Brett Weston, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Sonya Noskowiak, and Preston Holder.

f.64 Group

Edward Weston - Dunes, Oceano

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

Though members of the group represented a wide range of subject matter in their work,

f.64 Group

Edward Weston - Sand Dunes 1936

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

They were united in their practice of using the camera to record life as it is, through unmanipulated “pure” documentation.

f.64 Group

Willard Van Dyke - Landscape

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunningham🍃

Works associated with Group f.64 include Adams’s dramatic images of Yosemite National Park,

f.64 Group

Brett Weston - Untitled (Dunes and Mountains, White Sands, New Mexico), 1945

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

Edward Weston’s close-up, high-detail photographs of fruits and vegetables and of sand dunes and nudes,

f.64 Group

John Paul Edwards
Scenic view of Lake Eola Park
(Appears to be infrared)

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

And Cunningham’s studies of calla lilies.

John Paul Edwards - Germany

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Consuelo Kanaga, 1948 - portrait

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Consuelo Kanaga - Sunflower
(Note the level of detail)

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Alma Lavenson - Snow Blossoms, 1932.

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Sonya Noskowiak untitled landscape 1937

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Sonya Noskowiak, Sand Pattern, 1932.

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Preston Holder - portrait of Ansel Adams preparing a shot.

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

🎥🎥

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

f.64 Group

Imogen Cunningham Trust

imogencunningham.com

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

If you like this, please check out

#PopArt, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism #Surrealism. #Bauhaus & #AshCanSchool #Fauvism #Futurism #Vorticism #Supremacism

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

🍃#ImogenCunninghamF64🍃

Also please check out:

#MaxfieldParrish #JohnSingerSargent
#DavidHockney #Kandinsky #StillLife #GustavKlimt

Please add your favorite f.64 group photograph.

Up next? Andrew Wyeth

🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼

#PAM #PAMFAM #ImogenCunninghamF64

@threadreaderapp unroll please and thank you.

#ImogenCunninghamF64