Imogen Cunningham : Ideas without end : a life in photographs / Richard Lorenz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Learning to see
California and a new vision
Stolen pictures
On Green Street
Ideas without end
Notes
Plates.

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the first retrospective examination of her life's work, which spanned some seventy years, and features many previously unpublished, remarkable images.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 as the most sophisticated, experimental, and Europe-oriented photographer on the West Coast.