Photo Emulation: Imogen Cunningham
The light is straight coming at the flower there are some shadows behind it. The photo has good contrast the white in the background and black inside of the flower. The photograph is in focus and it has a slow shutter speed. It is symmetrical and it isn't taken from a high or low point of view. The photograph is taken horizontally and there is a sense of background, middleground, and foreground. When looking at the picture your eyes go from the bottom following the stem up to the flower.
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Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon and was the 5th of 10 children. She grew up in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in chemistry. Imogen started taking pictures of plants for class. This led her to start working with Edward S. Curtis learning practical photography. In 1910 she wrote a paper on increase printing speed, improve clarity of highlight tones, and produce sepia tones. Her work was shown in the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Sciences in 1913 and in An International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in New York 1914. In 1920 she moved to San Fransisco with her family and started refining her style. Imogen started taking pictures of botanical, industrial, and nudes. In 1929 she was nominated with these photos to be in the "Film und Foto". Eventually she started working with the hands of musicians and artists. She started working with Vanity Fair and worked there until they stopped publication. She continued to create more work after this branching into different photography.
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