Interview with Imogen Cunningham | Smithsonian Institution

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Place of publication, production, or execution: No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description: 3 sound tape reels : analog ; 3 in. ; 5 hr., 18 min., 1 sec.
Summary: Cunningham, interviewed by Mann, speaks of the sale and exhibition of her prints; being a "darkroom slave"; portrait photography; photographs as documents; the "soft-focus era"; teaching; and the f/64 Group.
Cunningham comments on 104 of her photographs, including her portraits of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, Martha Graham, Cary Grant, Alfred Stieglitz, Upton Sinclair, Adedee Ozenfant, Frida Kahlo, Getrude Stein, Shen Yao, Lyonel Feininger, Morris Graves, Anna Freud, and Minor White. She recalls Diane Arbus, Arthur Fellig, Paul Strand, and others.
Reel 3 is a fairly poor, noisy recording.
Citation: Imogen Cunningham and Margery Mann. Interview with Imogen Cunningham, 1960-1973. Margery Mann files on photography, 1955-1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Use Note: Current copyright status is undetermined
Location Note: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

1960-1973

Archives of American Art