Imogen Cunningham was a female black and white photographer. She was born on April 12, 1883 at Portland, Oregon. In 1901, at the age of 18, Imogen bought her first camera from American School of Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania, but lost interest and sold the camera to one of her friends. It wasn't until she was studying at the University of Washington in 1906, that she decided to take up photography again. She began to study the chemistry behind photography and in 1907 she graduated with a degree in chemistry with her thesis,"Modern Processes of Photography." In 1909 Cunningham moved to Germany because she won a fellowship for foreign studies. Her time in Germany was more focused on her studies then photography, and in May of 1910 she finished her paper "About the Direct Development of Platinum Paper for Brown Tones". When Cunningham moved to Seattle, she opened a studio and won acclaim for portraiture and pictorial work. In 1914 her work was shown at An International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography. Cunningham continued to do many wonderful pieces and work, joining many organizations until her passing on June 23, 1976 at the age of 93. She passed at San Francisco, California. She published a book called Exposed to Light: A Biography of Imogen Cunningham. Some of her well known pieces of photography were Magnolia Blossom, False Hellebore, Snake in Bucket.
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