San Francisco: Chronicle Books, Date: 1993. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library with sticker on lower DJ spine and on rear pastedown; DJ and boards have light edgewear/scuffing/smudging; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Purple and white DJ with b&w-photo illustration with purple and black lettering; deep purple cloth over boards with silver metallic lettering; 180 pp.; richly illustraterd in b&w. Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was a pioneer of modern twentieth-century photography, an artist whose work significantly contributed to the acceptance of the medium as an art form. This volume offers the first retrospective examination of her life's work, which spanned some seventy years, and features many previously unpublished, remarkable images. This definitive review is drawn primarily from Cunningham's archives at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, the most complete collection of her prints and negatives in the world. As an early but undeclared feminist, Cunningham was one of the first women to make a successful living as a photographer. She established a professional studio in Seattle in 1910, and during this early period, she created not only commercial portraiture but a body of pictorialist imagery often based on poetic and allegorical themes - although her use of nude male and female figures was considered scandalous. After moving to California in 1917, Cunningham developed a keener, more penetrating vision, exemplified by her botanical and nude figure studies of the 1920s. Her ...

ISBN10: 0811803902, ISBN13: 9780811803908, [publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco] Hardcover Purple and white DJ with b&w-photo illustration with purple and black lettering; deep purple cloth over boards with silver metallic lettering; 180 pp.; richly illustraterd in b&w. Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was a pioneer of modern twentieth-century photography, an artist whose work significantly contributed to the acceptance of the medium as an art form. This volume offers the first retrospective examination of her life's work, which spanned some seventy years, and features many previously unpublished, remarkable images. This definitive review is drawn primarily from Cunningham's archives at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, the most complete collection of her prints and negatives in the world. As an early but undeclared feminist, Cunningham was one of the first women to make a successful living as a photographer. She established a professional studio in Seattle in 1910, and during this early period, she created not only commercial portraiture but a body of pictorialist imagery often based on poetic and allegorical themes - although her use of nude male and female figures was considered scandalous. After moving to California in 1917, Cunningham developed a keener, more penetrating vision, exemplified by her botanical and nude figure studies of the 1920s. Her experiments with multiple imagery and double exposure throughout the 1920s and 1930s defined her ...

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, Date: 1993. First edition. Oblong softcover. First printing. A biography of this important and influential photographer. Includes 120 black and white plates along with 73 smaller figures. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. 1993. Chronicle Books ISBN 0811803902 US

Chronicle Books, Date: 1993-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1993. Chronicle Books ISBN 0811803902 9780811803908 [US]

ISBN10: 0811803902, ISBN13: 9780811803908, [publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Oblong softcover. First printing. A biography of this important and influential photographer. Includes 120 black and white plates along with 73 smaller figures. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket.
[Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
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