There are certain things you don’t discuss with Ansel, especially if you don’t agree.

About Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunninghamwas an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

It’s silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I don’t talk about success. I don’t know what it is. Wait until I’m dead.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don’t need them they drop back.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

Some people say to me, Isn’t it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There’s always someone who doesn’t like it.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I don’t know what love means.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

When you do portraits professionally it’s not a desire, it’s for money.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I don’t love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I hate big models.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I’d never kill myself for a man. I wouldn’t do it for anybody.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

There are certain things you don’t discuss with Ansel, especially if you don’t agree.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

I don’t resent anything.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don’t discuss that.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)

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 (1883-1976)

Get it out of your historic head.

Imogen Cunningham

American photographer (1883-1976)