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Imogen Cunningham
April 12, 1883 - June 24, 1976
Nationality: American
Category: Photographer
Subcategory: American Photographer

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

   

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

   

I hate big models.

   

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

   

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

   

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

   

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

   

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

   

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

   

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

   

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

   

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

   

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

   

Get it out of your historic head.

   

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

   

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

   

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

   

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

   

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

   

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

   

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