The unmade bed
(1957)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
24.7 × 32.6 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2023
© 2023 Imogen Cunningham Trust / www.ImogenCunningham.com
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
In 1957 Imogen Cunningham was teaching at the California School of Fine Art when she overheard her colleague Dorothea Lange asking her students to photograph an object that they used every day. In response to this, Cunningham set the same task for herself. In the resulting image, prosaic elements such as discarded hair pins and crumpled bedsheets form an elegant still life and an unexpectedly tender portrait of the everyday.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
United States
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on support l.c.r.: Imogen Cunningham 1957
Accession Number
2023.10
Department
International Photography