On view at Madrid’s FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE Azca gallery through January 20, Imogen Cunningham is organized by FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura with the collaboration of LA FABRICA, Madrid.

Curated by Celina Lunsford, curator and consultant for the Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, this exhibition presents for the first time in Europe roughly 200 prints by Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976). One of America’s most influential pioneering photographers, Cunningham along with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, founded the group f/64 that championed photography as an art form.

By showcasing many key aspects of Cunningham's artistic oeuvre including her botanicals, nudes, and landscapes, and by spanning every decade of her seventy-plus career, the exhibition seeks to reveal both the breadth and depth of her extraordinary vision. Exhibition highlights include: Winter in Cowen Park, Seattle (1907) a cyan-colored, gum bio chromate loaned from the George Eastman House collection; Agave Design, a series from the early 1920s of four 8” x 10” prints; an exquisite color Polaroid of Phoenix, one of Cunningham’s most revered models. The show also includes several double exposures made throughout her life, while portraits on view include the 1932 series of dancer Martha Graham, and commissions by Vanity Fair of such Hollywood stars as Cary Grant. Cunningham’s unfiltered approach to capturing her subject also translated into masterfully-composed depictions of residential neighborhoods and everyday situations, as seen in urban landscapes on view including Summer Day, New York City (1956).