Quotes by Imogen Cunningham

About Imogen Cunningham:

Imogen Cunningham 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.

Imogen Cunningham

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

Imogen Cunningham

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.

Imogen Cunningham

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Imogen Cunningham

I don't know what love means.

Imogen Cunningham

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

Imogen Cunningham

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.

Imogen Cunningham

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.

Imogen Cunningham

Get it out of your historic head.

Imogen Cunningham

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

Imogen Cunningham

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.

Imogen Cunningham

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Imogen Cunningham

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

Imogen Cunningham

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

Imogen Cunningham

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Imogen Cunningham

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.

Imogen Cunningham

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Imogen Cunningham

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?

Imogen Cunningham

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Imogen Cunningham

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

Imogen Cunningham

Author Bio

  • NameImogen Cunningham
  • DescriptionAmerican photographer
  • BornApril 12, 1883
  • DiedJune 24, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhotographer