Portraiture Published by Bulfinch Softcover New This impressive volume presents a full overview of Imogen Cunningham's portrait images dating from 1906 through 1976. More than half of these evocative images have never been published before, and include portraits of such personalities as Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Spencer Tracy, Frida Kahlo, Alvar Aalto, Jose Limon, Cary Grant, Herbert Hoover, Merce Cunningham, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Somerset Maugham, and Anna Freud. Here too are some of Cunningham's self-portraits and the faces of family and friends. Besides more than 200 duotones, the book also includes 13 color plates. Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was one of photography's pioneers 'a Seattle-based virtuoso whose work significantly contributed to the acceptance of the medium as an art form. This series of books by Cunningham curator Richard Lorenz on her work is a luscious survey of the photographer's images. Illustrated with duotone plates and additional black and white photographs' they are singular explorations of Cunningham's profoundly sensitive and modern vision. Each book in the series stands alone, containing an illustrated essay that discusses influences on her work with comparable images by other photographers, as well as a chronology of Cunningham's life and a selected bibliography. ISBN 0821227327
