One could say that if a person is named after a character from a Shakespearean comedy (Cymbeline), they are predestined to an extraordinary life. And this American’s life certainly was just that – from beginning to end she was shaping it on her own terms.
Ever since she bought her first camera using her own savings at the age of eighteen, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) has taken photos almost non-stop. Throughout her seven-decades-long career she keeps experimenting and reinventing herself as an artist. Only soaking them in at first, she’s soon shaping the trends of the era herself. Her art conveys freedom: she follows what calls to her at the given moment; sometimes it’s nudes or portraits (of her close-ones and celebrities), other times it’s documentary or street photography. Finally – photography of objects.
