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Photography and Media

c. 1929

Imogen Cunningham
American, 1883–1976

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Imogen Cunningham
Title: Back
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1924–1934
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Imogen Cunningham"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Paper: 14 × 20.9 cm (5 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Mount: 22.2 × 25.2 cm (8 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy
Reference Number: 1978.1062

Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 161, fig. 38.
Martineau, Paul. “Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective.” 109. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2020

NY, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera,” February 9–June 1, 2003. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photography on Display: Modern Treasures,” May 9–September 13, 2009.
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective, Mar 8–June 12, 2021; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Nov 18–Feb 6 2022.

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