When Imogen Cunningham was 92, she started a new project, photographing people of advanced age. She estimated that this would take two years to complete, and she planned to publish the photographs in a volume to be called "After Ninety." She began to seek out subjects, visiting them in their homes, in hospitals, and in convents.
The project provided an outlet for her determination to keep active and a way to come to terms with growing older. Cunningham died at the age of 93 on June 24, 1976, and the book was published the following year.
View her work in the "Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective" exhibition at the Getty Center until this Sunday, June 12.
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📷: My Father at Ninety, 1936, Imogen Cunningham. Getty Museum. © The Imogen Cunningham Trust