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Two Callas, by Imogen Cunningham, c. 1929. (credit: Imogen Cunningham)

(born April 12, 1883, Portland, Ore., U.S. — died June 24, 1976, San Francisco, Calif.) U.S. photographer. She began taking pictures in 1901; her earliest prints imitated contemporary academic painting. She opened a portrait studio in Seattle, Wash., in 1910 and soon established a national reputation as a portrait photographer. Encouraged by Edward Weston, she exhibited her plant photographs in San Francisco, where she would work for the remainder of her career. In 1932 she joined the West Coast photographers known as Group f.64. Later in her career she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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