IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: Portraiture—1997 1st HARDCOVER

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition in HARDCOVER: • “IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: PORTRAITURE”(A Bulfinch Press Book | Little, Brown & Company, 1997) (Hardcover, First Edition) • PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM • TEXT BY RICHARD LORENZ • FEATURING: 208 DUOTONE PLATES | 50 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS | 13 COLOR PLATES • “IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM (1883-1976) was one of the photography’s early pioneers, a Seattle-born virtuoso whose brilliant portraits and still lifes helped establish the medium as an art form. This book…collects the best of CUNNINGHAM’s portrait work—over 200 imagers, more than half of which have never before been published.” —THE PUBLISHER • “What explains the fact that IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM is still an elusive figure? She was once considered one of the greatest photographers, alongside her contemporaries ALFRED STIEGLITZ and ANSEL ADAMS…. But at some point, her popularity dropped off a bit. Even today, though a few U.S. museums have collected her work in depth, the full view of CUNNINGHAM’s photographic work—which runs the gamut from expressively lighted shots of flowers, to piercing portraiture shot on commission, to mysterious street photography, to experimental abstractions, and more—has largely gone unseen…. CUNNINGHAM’s pictures of people are her best-known ones. Often evocative of deeply complex psychologies, they feature all kinds of figures, from actor CARY GRANT to photographer ALFRED STIEGLITZ, whose icy gaze is pierced by CUNNINGHAM’s camera…. CUNNINGHAM’s portraiture has often be prized for its intensity. Her photographs of the modernist dancer MARTHA GRAHAM, shot in 1931, are among her most widely praised ones, even though just a handful of her pictures from that shoot have ever been printed and exhibited.” —ALEX GREENBERGER, ART NEWS • “This sumptuous book, a tribute to one of the most talented photographers of the American West, includes over 250 beautifully reproduced portraits…. CUNNINGHAM’s refreshingly informal approach results in a collection of open, honest portraits of the notable people of her time, including DOROTHEA LANGE, SHERWOOD ANDERSON, GERTRUDE STEIN, and GARY GRANT. Along with the quiet dignity that pervades her work, there is an abiding sense of humanity and a touch of whimsy. LORENZ…furnishes a fine account of the artist's approach to portraiture, a detailed biography of her work, and a helpful time line. Essential….” —LIBRARY JOURNAL • “LORENZ deserves high praise for…bringing 220 intelligently chosen and sequenced plates to light… The ‘problem’ with CUNNINGHAM was her versatility. She is not easy to categorize as a portraitist, for she had no formulas and responded to each subject freshly, posing them, carefully or candidly, sometimes in sunlight; sometimes in soft, controlled light; sometimes up close; and sometimes in a telling environment. Consistent are her genuine interest in each person's uniqueness, her strong sense of design, and her ability to use light dramatically. Even collections including every other CUNNINGHAM book should add this one.”—BOOKLIST • “When you’ve been photographed by IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, you haven’t just had a sitting, you’ve had an experience.”—MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY (1951) • “However formal or relaxed or intense her subjects may have been in facing the camera, MISS CUNNINGHAM is remarkably generous and searching. She really gives herself to the subject—there is no question of turning the subject into “a CUNNINGHAM’…. To sustain a career of this sort over so long a period requires not only remarkable gifts and exceptional dedication, but something else as well—let us call it moral stamina. Others may have brought a deeper and a more concentrated vision to photography, or a more flamboyant sense of drama, but MISS CUNNINGHAM brought a love and an appetite for life that are no less rare. Picture by picture, we respond to particular triumphs of the eye and the medium, but we come away from her work as a whole with a sense of her own generous response to life.” —HILTON KRAMER, NEW YORK TIMES (1973) • “My best picture is the one I'll take tomorrow.” —IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: PORTRAITURE”PHOTOGRAPHS: IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM ILLUSTRATED WITH: 208 DUOTONE PLATES | 50 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS | 13 COLOR PLATES TEXT: RICHARD LORENZ TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 200 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Bulfinch Press Book | Little, Brown & Company (New York), 1997 PRINTED IN: SINGAPORE EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-8212-2437-9 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.Price ($50.00) is unclipped. Top corner, front, is crumpled; other corners are sharp. 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