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Imogen Cunningham
Aloe1929

Not on view
Black and white close-up photograph of a tightly scaled plant bud on a thick stem, with a large cast shadow on a pale wall behind it

Imogen Cunningham, Aloe, 1929, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Fund, digital image © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Imogen Cunningham
United States, 1883-1976
Title
Aloe
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1929
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 12 1/2 × 9 3/16 in. (31.75 × 23.34 cm) Primary support: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.78 cm) Secondary support: 19 × 14 in. (48.26 × 35.56 cm) Mat: 24 × 20 in. (60.96 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number
30.45.7
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Macfarlane, Ellen. Politics Unseen: Group f.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2024.
Copyright
© The Imogen Cunningham Trust