Magnolia Flower 1925

Object Details

date made
1925
maker
Cunningham, Imogen
Description (Brief)
Gelatin silver print, black and white, mounted. Close up of flower pistol with wide open petals. Signed and dated, pencil (recto: lower right). Verso: Imogen Cunningham label adhered, top 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.
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Credit Line
Copyright held by the Imogen Cunningham Trust Berkeley, CA 510-654-2020
Data Source
National Museum of American History
ID Number
PG.69.77.1
accession number
288841
catalog number
69.77.1
Object Name
photograph
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 38 cm x 51.2 cm; 14 31/32 in x 20 5/32 in
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-2daf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
Record ID
nmah_892657
Photograph by Imogen Cunningham, 'Magnolia Flower'