Description

Full title: “Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973”

Signed & inscribed by Cunningham to the title page “By the hand of / Imogen / for / John Tomaschke / at Blanche’s / Aug 17 -1974”. Loosely inserted is:

– a 1979 article on Blanche’s, a former San Franciso eatery & and informal cultural institution whose indomitable proprietor Blanche Pasterino formed a close friendship with Cunningham

– 1976 article reporting Cunningham’s death

– large black & white photograph of an unidentified elderly man (taken by Cunningham?)

Published in conjunction with a 1974 retrospective exhibition at the University of Washington

A trailblazing female photographer across diverse fields including portraiture, nudes, plants & street scenes. Cunningham was a co-founder of the influential photographic collective f/64 [alongside greats including Edward Weston & Ansel Adams]

Introduction by fellow photographer & critic Margery Mann

First Edition [Seattle, University of Washington Press], quarto, 112 pages including 75 full page black & white photograph reproductions, cloth cover, in the unclipped, near fine dustwrapper [lightly tanned]