Judy Dater
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Judy Dater is an American
photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known for her 1974 photograph, Imogen and Twinka, featuring an elderly Imogen Cunningham
, one of America's first women photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The nymph is the model
Twinka Thiebaud
.
Dater was born in 1941 in Hollywood and grew up in Los Angeles
. She studied art there, before moving to San Francisco to take a photography course with Jack Welpott, whom she later married. In 1975, they published a joint work, titled Women and Other Visions. They were divorced by the early 1980s.
In 1964, Dater met Imogen Cunningham, whose life and work had greatly inspired her. In 1979, three years after Cunningham's death, she published Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait, containing interviews with many of Cunningham's contemporaries, and photos by both Dater and Cunningham. This book also contained the photo: Imogen and Twinka.
She received a Guggenheim
Award in 1979. Dater also published two further books of her work: Body and Soul (1988) and Cycles (1994).
Judy Dater now lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband Jack B. von Euw.
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photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known for her 1974 photograph, Imogen and Twinka, featuring an elderly Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:...
, one of America's first women photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The nymph is the model
Model (art)
Art models are models who pose for photographers, painters, sculptors, and other artists as part of their work of art. Art models who pose in the nude for life drawing are usually called life models...
Twinka Thiebaud
Twinka Thiebaud
Twinka Thiebaud , is an American model who posed for many of the most important photographers of the 20th century. In the work of Judy Dater, one particular photo, Imogen and Twinka, has become one of the most recognizable images caught by an American photographer...
.
Dater was born in 1941 in Hollywood and grew up in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
. She studied art there, before moving to San Francisco to take a photography course with Jack Welpott, whom she later married. In 1975, they published a joint work, titled Women and Other Visions. They were divorced by the early 1980s.
In 1964, Dater met Imogen Cunningham, whose life and work had greatly inspired her. In 1979, three years after Cunningham's death, she published Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait, containing interviews with many of Cunningham's contemporaries, and photos by both Dater and Cunningham. This book also contained the photo: Imogen and Twinka.
She received a Guggenheim
Guggenheim
Guggenheim may refer to:* Benjamin Guggenheim* Charles Guggenheim* Davis Guggenheim* Guggenheim Building* Guggenheim family* Guggenheim Fellowship* Guggenheim Museum * Harry Frank Guggenheim* John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
Award in 1979. Dater also published two further books of her work: Body and Soul (1988) and Cycles (1994).
Judy Dater now lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband Jack B. von Euw.