Two Callas (detail), 1925-1929, Imogen Cunningham. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy, 1988.157.24. © The Imogen Cunningham Trust Two Callas (detail), 1925-1929, Imogen Cunningham. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy, 1988.157.24. © The Imogen Cunningham Trust

In a career that spanned seventy years, Imogen Cunningham created a large and diverse body of work — from portraits, to nudes, to florals, and to street photographs. In a field dominated by men, she was one of a handful of women who helped to shape early modernist photography in America. This exhibition seeks to acknowledge her stature as equivalent to that of her male peers and to reevaluate her enormous contribution to twentieth century photographic history.

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Jordan Schnitzer Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation

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Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective

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