New Major Exhibition
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM RETROSPECTIVE
to Getty Center & Seattle Art Museum

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SEEN & UNSEEN:
PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Organized by Photographic Traveling Exhibitions
Continues Museum Tour – Dates Still Available thru 2026

From the LA Times, April 14. 2022:

“IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: A RETROSPECTIVE, now at the Getty Center, represents a major effort at revitalizing interest in the photographer, who was once famous enough to appear as a guest on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", not long before she died. A smaller survey exhibition, SEEN AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, ,” has been touring for several years and arrives in May at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in Northern California. Together, these shows secure her top tier in the ranks of 20th century photography.”

The Getty writes:

” In a career that spanned seventy years, Imogen Cunningham created a large and diverse body of work — from portraits, to nudes, to florals, and to street photographs. In a field dominated by men, she was one of a handful of women who helped to shape early modernist photography in America. This exhibition seeks to acknowledge her stature as equivalent to that of her male peers and to reevaluate her enormous contribution to twentieth century photographic history.”

SEEN & UNSEEN features 60 photographs including Cunningham's most iconic works as well as a selection of images that have never or rarely been seen before. The exhibition is curated by Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany. Based upon new research by Lunsford, biographical and aesthetic topics are explored throughout the exhibition.

 


Traveling Exhibition

Curator: Celina Lunsford
Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany

Organized by
The Imogen Cunningham Trust
in association with
Photographic Traveling Exhibitions

Website
www.p-t-e.org/cunningham

Email: info@p-t-e.org

- Introduction - About Imogen Cunningham - Exhibition Texts -
- Exhibition Installation Views Bowers Museum Santa Ana, CA, 11/16 -
- Exhibition List - Images of Works -
- Exhibition Facts - Schedule - Contact -


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SEEN & UNSEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM



Self Portrait with Camera, late 1920s

This new exhibition presents iconographic works
alongside images rarely exhibited from this
great American artist.

It is the first exhibition tour of Cunningham’s
photographs in the USA in twenty years, giving
new generations an in depth view of her work.



Photographic Traveling Exhibitions is proud to announce the new exhibition, SEEN & UNSEEN: PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, is now available for presentation worldwide. The exhibition premiered at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, in 2016. It is available for scheduling through 2026.

The exhibition features 60 photographs including Cunningham's most iconic works, as well as a selection of images that have never or rarely been seen before. The exhibition is being curated by Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany. Based upon new research by Lunsford, biographical and aesthetic topics will be explored throughout the exhibition.




Meg Partridge, Director of the Imogen Cunningham Trust and Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany, at the Cunningham Archives selecting images for the exhibition, April, 2016. Photo by Heidi Wrage.


SEEN & UNSEEN is the first exhibition of this seminal artist's photographs to tour the USA in 20 years, giving a new generation the opportunity to view her work for the first time. Categories such as family photographs, portraiture, abstract still lifes, and work from the 1960s and 1970s, including street portraits from Haight Ashbury and Paris, are just some of the themes this show will explore.

The photographs come courtesy of the Imogen Cunningham Trust. The exhibition was organized by The Imogen Cunningham Trust in association with Photographic Traveling Exhibitions.


   

 

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM


SEEN & UNSEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
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Exhibition Facts

CONTENTS
60 framed photographs
Text panels and wall labels

DATES AVAILABLE
Through 2026

LECTURERS
Meg Partridge, Director
Imogen Cunningham Trust

Curator, Celina Lunsford,
Artistic Director
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany

PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition brochure
A poster is available
Various books by Cunningham for sale

MEDIA
28 minute film, "Portrait of Imogen".
In this very personal film, Imogen Cunningham presents more than 250 of her photographs during archival interviews recorded by her son Rondal Partridge. Based on 8 hours of black and white audiotapes, "Portrait of Imogen" was directed by Meg Partridge, produced by Meg Partridge and Nancy Hale, and edited by Claude Ibrahimoff. Released in 1988, it was nomintaed for an Academy Award in the documentary category.

SPACE REQUIRED
200-300 running feet approx.

LOAN FEE
On request

INSURANCE & SHIPPING
Exhibitor responsible

EXHIBITION WEBSITE
www.p-t-e.org/cunningham

CONTACT



Tel: 310 397 3098

Email: info@p-t-e.org

PTE Website: www.p-t-e.org

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SEEN & UNSEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM

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Exhibition Schedule
as of 7/1/25

2016

November 19, 2016 - February 26, 2017
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA

2018

February 2 - April 29
Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC

August 11 - October 15
Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY

2019

January 11 - March 16
Historic City Hall
Lake Charles. LA

June 16 - September 9
Ft. Wayne MOA
Ft. Wayne, IN

October 18 - December 29
Long Island Museum of Contemporary Art
Stony Brook, NY

2022

May 4 - August 28
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
Sonoma, CA

2023

April 8 - July 16
Polk Museum of Art
Lakeland, FL

2024

Februray 15 - May 19
Reynolda House Museum,
Winston-Salem, NC

2025

April 26 - July 20
Naples Art Institute
Naples, FL

August 7 - December 31
OPEN

2026

OPEN

Website
www.p-t-e.org/cunningham

- Introduction - About Imogen Cunningham - Exhibition List - Exhibition Texts -
- Exhibition Installation Views Bowers Museum Santa Ana, CA, 11/16 -
 -Images of Works- Exhibition Facts - Schedule - Contact -