Triangles 1928

Description (Brief):

Gelatin silver, black and white, mounted. Left side view of woman's body from shoulder to hip. Focus on left breast. Blindstamp, Strathmore, top left edge of mount. Signed and dated, pencil (recto: bottom right edge). Verso: Imogen Cunningham label with address and title typed on, top center.

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.

Date Made: 1928

Maker: Cunningham, Imogen

See more items in: Work and Industry: Photographic History, Photo History Collection, Imogen Cunningham Collection, Photography

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: Copyright held by the Imogen Cunningham Trust Berkeley, CA 510-654-2020

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PG.69.77.2Accession Number: 288841Catalog Number: 69.77.2

Object Name: photograph

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: 30.6 cm x 23.1 cm; 12 1/16 in x 9 3/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2db0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_892658

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