I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
It’s silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I don’t talk about success. I don’t know what it is. Wait until I’m dead.
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?
American photographer (1883-1976)
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don’t need them they drop back.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
Some people say to me, Isn’t it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
American photographer (1883-1976)
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There’s always someone who doesn’t like it.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I don’t know what love means.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
When you do portraits professionally it’s not a desire, it’s for money.
American photographer (1883-1976)
Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I don’t love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I hate big models.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I’d never kill myself for a man. I wouldn’t do it for anybody.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
American photographer (1883-1976)
There are certain things you don’t discuss with Ansel, especially if you don’t agree.
American photographer (1883-1976)
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
American photographer (1883-1976)
I don’t resent anything.
American photographer (1883-1976)
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don’t discuss that.
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.
American photographer (1883-1976)
Get it out of your historic head.
American photographer (1883-1976)