Imogen Cunningham was born on April 12th 1883 in Portland, Oregon. In 1991, she purchase her first camera, 4x5 inch view camera but soon she had no interest and sold the camera to her friend. Not until she found the work of Gertrude Kasebier, she started to take picture again. Her professor suggested her for majoring in science background to be a photographer. She graduated in titled "Modern Processes of Photography" from the University of Washington.
In 1914, she had one-person exhibition in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. After that she had group / one-person exhibitions in major museums and galleries inside and outside USA includinng Film and foot Exhibition in Stuttgart, Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco , Chicago Art Institute In Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and many more.
Cunningham was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland and Guggenheim fellowship for her fellowship to print her early negatives.
Source: The Imogen Cunningham Trust