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Imogen and Twinka

1974

Judy Dater

(American, 1941-)
Culture
America
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 24.3 x 19.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 24.3 x 19.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Mounted: 45.7 x 35.4 cm (18 x 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Tom E. Hinson and Diana S. Tittle 2017.228
Copyright
© 1974 Judy Dater
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This iconic double portrait shows the famed nonagenarian photographer Imogen Cunningham coming upon the young model Twinka Thiebaud in the woods of Yosemite. Dater’s composition is inspired by, and reacts against, Thomas Hart Benton’s painting of Persephone of 1939. In her photograph, voyeurism gives way to an exchange of gazes between age and youth, human and possible nymph.
Black-and-white photograph of two woman in a forest, glancing at each other with faint smiles. Twinka Thiebaud, a nude, young woman with light skin tone, faces us on our left, arms behind back and curling to look over her right shoulder at Imogen Cunningham, a woman in her nineties on our left. This woman wears a dress, has light skin tone with wispy white hair, a camera around her neck, and gazes at the first woman.

Imogen and Twinka

1974

Judy Dater

(American, 1941-)
America

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