Imogen Cunningham, San Francisco

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Imogen Cunningham, San Francisco

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Edmund Teske

American Photographer · 1911–1996

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Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and music; when he graduated from high school, he built his own darkroom in the basement of the family home. In 1934 Teske took a position as an assistant in a commercial photographic studio in Chicago. He went

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Date
1966
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
9c74d5a1-30e0-4a81-a611-9b91de29c972

Portrait of Imogen Cunningham sitting in her home in San Francisco. She leans back in a chair, resting her weight on one elbow and holding her hand up to the side of her face. Light streams in through the windows and casts shadows on the bookshelves that line the room behind her. The bookshelves are filled with books, framed artwork, and other small knickknacks, and a tripod leans against them in the corner.

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