Imogen Cunningham

mounted to Strathmore illustration board, the photographer's '862 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California 94107' letterpress credit label, with facsimile signature and typed title and date, on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1931, printed later

Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1993

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 85 and 210 (this print)

Vanity Fair, December 1931

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: Portraiture (Boston, 1997), pl. 59

Imogen Cunningham: The Modernist Years (Japan, 1993), unpaginated         

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs (Seattle and London, 1970), pl. 21

Richard Lorenz and Manfred Heiting, eds., Imogen Cunningham, 1883 - 1976 (Köln, 2001), p. 60

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. When examined under ultraviolet light, this print appears to fluoresce.
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