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Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham (/ˈkʌnɪŋəm/; April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was 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 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.

Photography, Art, Father, Photographer, Become

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

Alive, Artist, Disease, Keep, People, Silly

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

Book, Interesting, People, Tedious

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

Beings, Human, Humans, People, Turn, Turns

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Jobs, Like, Photography, Poet, Thinking

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

Men, Puddles, Stealing, Jumped, Man

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.

Artist, Couple, Darkroom, Photographing, Stop, Years

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Alike, Fascinating, Photography, Portraiture, Thing

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.

Artist, Thinking, Hands, Expect, Hand, Work

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.

Doe, Greatest, Nice, Person, Portraits, Several

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

Artist, Thinking, Should Have, Hit, Love, Think

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Born, Faces, Jobs, Photographer, Portrait, Portraits

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.

Influencing, Photography, Teaching, Thing, Think, Thinking

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

Kill, Man, Men

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

Artist, Dead, Knows, Success, Talk, Waiting

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Believe, Views, Individual, Working, Explainers

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

Came, People, Photography, Save, Thinking

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

Ansel, Artist, Jobs, Older, People

Get it out of your historic head.

Artist, Head, Historic

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

Best Picture, Picture, Tomorrow

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