Self-Portrait on Geary St. San Francisco 1958
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Object Details
- date made
- 1958
- maker
- Cunningham, Imogen
- Description (Brief)
- Silver gelatin, black and white, mounted. Photographer's self portrait in vertical mirror in store front. Dissembled lighting fixtures on ground. Strathmore blindstamp. Verso: Imogen Cunningham label, bottom center.
- Description
- 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.
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photo History Collection
- Imogen Cunningham Collection
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Copyright held by the Imogen Cunningham Trust Berkeley, CA 510-654-2020
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PG.69.77.12
- accession number
- 288841
- catalog number
- 69.77.12
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 36.7 cm x 28.7 cm; 14 7/16 in x 11 5/16 in
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_892676