Seed Pod, Araujia (milkweed)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1956
name: label: maker
content: Cunningham, Imogen
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silver gelatin, black and white, mounted. Close up of plant fibers, central pod with individual seeds all around. Signed and dated, pencil (recto: bottom center right). Verso: Imogen Cunningham label, date handwritten, pencil.
label: Description
content: The Imogen Cunningham collection consists of thirty gelatin silver photographs, mounted, with label, signed and dated by the photographer, and three platinum prints, mounted and labeled. The subjects in the thirty gelatin silver photographs range from plants to portraiture between 1925 and 1968. The three platinum prints were made in 1912 and are representative of Cunningham’s pictorialist style. They were acquired from the photographer in 1968.
label: Description
content: The photographs were used in a Smithsonian exhibition titled, “Women, Cameras, and Images I,” November 30, 1968-May 30, 1969, in the Hall of Photography, Museum of History and Technology. The exhibition also included thirty additional photographs lent by Imogen Cunningham, and five lent from the Library of Congress. The “Women, Cameras, and Images” exhibition was a series of five exhibitions featuring the work of female photographers: Cunningham, Betty Hahn, Gayle Smalley, Barbara Morgan, and Janine Niepce.
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photo History Collection
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content: Imogen Cunningham Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Copyright held by the Imogen Cunningham Trust Berkeley, CA 510-654-2020
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.77.11
label: accession number
content: 288841
label: catalog number
content: 69.77.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50.7 cm x 37.9 cm; 19 31/32 in x 14 29/32 in