Imogen Cunningham found inspiration in her own backyard. Cunningham studied photographic chemistry abroad before moving with her family to San Francisco in 1917. As a mother of three, she initially focused her photography close to home. She explained, “The reason I really turned to plants was because I couldn’t get out of my own backyard when my children were small...I started photographing what I had in my garden.”  In the 1920s and 1930s, she frequently created close-up botanical photographs. In these works, she rendered plants and flowers with sculptural qualities, offering a graphic study of light and shadow, line and curve. See her works in “Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography” on Floor 3. __ [Imogen Cunningham, “Calla Leaves,” 1932, Collection of Gary B. Sokol © The Imogen Cunningham Trust; Imogen Cunningham, “Agave Americanus,” before 1929; printed ca. 1955, Collection SFMOMA, Gerda Dorfner Memorial Fund purchase © The Imogen Cunningham T...