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Imogen Cunningham
American
Photographer
About the author
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Students
#Class
Get it out of your historic head.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Talk
#Success
I don't resent anything.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Love
#World
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Public
Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#First
#Woman
#Wrong
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Science
#America
I don't know what love means.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Love
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Mind
#Names
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Living
#Portraits
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Life
#People
#Questions
#Silly
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Names
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Gods
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Thought
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Mind
#Job
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Disease
#Silly
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Man
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Work
#Being
#Poor
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Hollywood
#Men
#Ugly
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Money
#Desire
#Portraits
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Life
#World
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Art
#Thought
#School
#Father
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Years
I hate big models.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Hate
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Teaching
#Photography
#Talent
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#People
#Gods
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
Imogen Cunningham,
American
Photographer
#Science
#America