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Photography's New Vision: Experiments in Seeing at the High Museum
Abelardo Morell, Ilse Bing, Alexander Rodchenko, Imogen Cunningham, and László Moholy-Nagy artworks 8 October 2024February 21 – July 13, 2025 Named by the influential German artist and teacher László Moholy-Nagy, the “New Vision” comprised an expansive variety of photographic...Read more -
Editors’ picks: Eight unmissable projects at Art Basel in Basel
Imogen Cunningham, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, and Berenice Abbott highlighted 5 June 2024Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham at Edwynn Houk Gallery are highlighted in "Editors’ picks: Eight unmissable projects at Art Basel in Basel."Read more -
Twentieth-century masterpieces at Art Basel Miami Beach
Imogen Cunningham highlighted 28 November 2022Beyond new art world developments and emerging trends, Art Basel Miami Beach also showcases exceptional works from the past century. Here, the stories behind some of the best.Read more -
The Met: The New Woman Behind the Camera
28 June - 3 October 2021 28 June 2021The New Woman of the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights the powerful expression of modernity by artists such as Dorothea Lange, Lillian Bassman, Dora Maar, Tina Modotti, and Lillian Bassman.Read more -
"Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective" Published by The Getty
Title is published to accompany forthcoming exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum 1 October 2020Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham’s work in over thirty-five years.Read more -
Imogen Cunningham’s Rise: Why the Proto-Feminist Photographer Has Grown So Popular
Cunningham in ARTnews 22 September 2020What explains the fact that Imogen Cunningham is still an elusive figure? She was once considered one of the greatest photographers, alongside her contemporaries Alfred...Read more -
The Pioneering Women Photographers Who Helped Shape Their Art
Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange & Ilse Bing in Christie's 30 April 2020The first half of the 20th century was a time of extraordinary change in the field of photography. By 1940, the Museum of Modern Art...Read more -
Object of the Week: Magnolia Blossom, Tower of Jewels
Imogen Cunningham in the Seattle Art Museum's Permanent Collection 10 April 2020Tightly framing her composition, Cunningham makes the subject of this work not the plant as a whole, but rather the innermost folds and stamen of the blooming magnolia flower.Read more -
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
MoMA Exhibition Celebrates Female Photographers 7 May 2010For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of...Read more