Great white and black photographers Part 2.

This picture was taken by Imogen Cunningham. She was born on April 12, 1883, in Portland, Oregon. She began taking photographs in 1901, while she was taking a course of photography at the University of Washington. She won a foreign study in 1910, and attended photographic courses at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden Germany. In 1932 she joined an association of West Coast photographers which was founded by, Ansel Adams, and Willard Van Dyke in 1934, under the name of Group f/64. After the brake up of f/64 , Cunningham ran a portrait gallery and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her final photographs were published in After ninety in 1977. Sadly she past away on June 24th. 1976 in San Francisco