Imogen Cunningham Quotes

• When you do portraits professionally it’s not a desire, it’s for money.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Desire, Portraits

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in People, Magazine, Mind

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in People, Private, Questions

• There are certain things you don’t discuss with Ansel, especially if you don’t agree.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Agree, Things

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in People, Discovered

• 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

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  Tags in Person, Greatest, Stories

• 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

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  Tags in Mind, Anything, Need

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in People, Terrible

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Myself, Kill

• 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

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  Tags in Expect, Reasonably, Poor

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Invited, Ugly, Asked

• 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

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  Tags in School, Great, Thought

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in People, Human

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Students, Told

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Think, Best

• 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

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  Tags in Stopped, Couple

• I hate big models.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Hate, Models

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Teaching, Thing

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

  Imogen Cunningham

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Until, Dead

• I don’t resent anything.

  Imogen Cunningham

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  Tags in Anything

Imogen Cunningham (27)

Birth:	12th April, 1883
Death:	24th June, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1883. In 1901, at the age of eighteen, Cunningham bought her first camera, a 4x5 inch view camera, from the American School of Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She soon lost interest and sold the camera to a friend. It wasn’t until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, that she was inspired by an encounter with the work of Gertrude Käsebier, to take up photography again.

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