American - Photographer | April 12, 1883 - June 24, 1976
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Get it out of your historic head.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I hate big models.
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I don't resent anything.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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