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Self-Portrait on Geary St. San Francisco 1958

National Museum of American History

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Cunningham, Imogen
Description (Brief)
Silver gelatin, black and white, mounted. Photographer's self portrait in vertical mirror in store front. Dissembled lighting fixtures on ground. Strathmore blindstamp. Verso: Imogen Cunningham label, bottom center.
Description
The Imogen Cunningham collection consists of thirty gelatin silver photographs, mounted, with label, signed and dated by the photographer, and three platinum prints, mounted and labeled. The subjects in the thirty gelatin silver photographs range from plants to portraiture between 1925 and 1968. The three platinum prints were made in 1912 and are representative of Cunningham’s pictorialist style. They were acquired from the photographer in 1968.
The photographs were used in a Smithsonian exhibition titled, “Women, Cameras, and Images I,” November 30, 1968-May 30, 1969, in the Hall of Photography, Museum of History and Technology. The exhibition also included thirty additional photographs lent by Imogen Cunningham, and five lent from the Library of Congress. The “Women, Cameras, and Images” exhibition was a series of five exhibitions featuring the work of female photographers: Cunningham, Betty Hahn, Gayle Smalley, Barbara Morgan, and Janine Niepce.
Credit Line
Copyright held by the Imogen Cunningham Trust Berkeley, CA 510-654-2020
1958
ID Number
PG.69.77.12
accession number
288841
catalog number
69.77.12
Object Name
photograph
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 36.7 cm x 28.7 cm; 14 7/16 in x 11 5/16 in
place made
United States: California, San Francisco
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Photo History Collection
Imogen Cunningham Collection
Photography
National Museum of American History
Record ID
nmah_892676
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-3586-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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Photograph by Imogen Cunningham, Self-Portrait on Geary St., San Francisco, 1958
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