Jim Friedman was photographing Imogen Cunningham in her house on Green Street in San Francisco back in 1975 when Imogen suddenly grabbed his camera and made this picture of him! You can tell how he felt about it.
A visit to Jim's website rejuvenated my flagging spirits after hours of dull data entry and too long listening to the voices of Lynda.com.
Mike
(Thanks to Jim)
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Now there is a guy who likes working on themes!
Paul
Posted by: Paul | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 02:20 PM
Imogen is awesome and (I think) highly under-rated.
Her portrait of Hanya Holm is one of my favorite pictures:
Posted by: Paul | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 03:12 PM
Cunningham lived to 93.
I once read an interview with her. She was asked how she was as productive in her eighties, as she was when younger; what was her secret.
She replied, "I chose my ancestors carefully."
For the article's photograph, she was wearing a Mao cap.
Posted by: misha | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 06:12 PM
Smile, you're on Candid Camera!
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 07:09 PM
That photo made me smile for, like, ten minutes straight.
Posted by: Maggie Osterberg | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 07:51 PM
Maggie,
Me, too.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 09:22 PM
When I saw the photo I first thought it was Ken Rockwell :-)
Posted by: John | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 09:53 PM
Cunningham was one of the all-time greats. Right in there with André Kertész, Paul Strand, Josef Koudelka. Maybe a few others were as good; none were better.
Posted by: Semilog | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 09:58 PM
But who'd have guessed Imogen Cunningham was so tiny?
VT
Posted by: Vinegar Tom | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 at 02:08 AM
Lovely work. I think some of the 70s portrait things are a bit "of their time" but lovely just the same.
Posted by: David Paterson | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 at 05:35 AM
"But who'd have guessed Imogen Cunningham was so tiny?"
Pretty much anybody who's ever seen Judy Dater's famous picture of Imogen and Twinka....
http://0rchid-thief.livejournal.com/614619.html?thread=2854363
(Warning, not school/workplace safe)
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 at 06:40 AM
Jim Friedman´s series "Hypersalivation" is such an example of no excuses for not finding a photography theme round home!
Paul
Posted by: Paul | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 at 09:24 AM
I've got an Imogen Cunningham baseball trading card, signed by "Comrade Imogen."
I treasure it.
Closest I've ever come to giving a damn about baseball.
pax / Comrade Ctein
Posted by: ctein | Wednesday, 29 September 2010 at 04:22 PM
And what was Ms. Cunningham's batting average?
Posted by: Mike | Thursday, 30 September 2010 at 03:20 PM
Mike, "Pleasures and terrors of kissing" is a knockout, isn't it? I remember these shots from the last time you showed us Jim's site. I particularly like number 7 (with the two dogs!), 8 (the half-hidden bespectacled women) and 9 (the hilarious poses which prompt the question: Who's daft, who's intelligent?).
Thanks
Rod S.
Posted by: Rod S | Friday, 01 October 2010 at 08:32 PM