Imogen Cunningham holds a unique place in twentieth-century American art history. For seventy years, she used her camera to explore photography's major artistic traditions with remarkable innovation and a distinctive vision that was entirely her own.

She joined the art movements of pictorialism and surrealism with her own style and was a founding member of the f.64 Group, a progressive photo group pursuing sharp focus and fine details within photography. Imogen created artistic portraits and photographs of botanical imagery, documented her family life and pursued street photography, nude studies, still lifes and self-portraits. In her remarkable seven-decade career few subjects escaped her keen eye.