ABOUT THE IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM TRUST
Imogen established the Trust in 1975 so that her work could continue to be seen, sold and enjoyed. The Trust continues to be a family-run archive, offering Estate and original lifetime prints to individual collectors and institutions, as well as holding the copyright to all Cunningham images and providing reproduction rights for publication, editorial and marketing use.
MEG PARTRIDGE, DIRECTOR
Meg Partridge, Imogen's granddaughter, is the Director of the Trust. Her passion and early exposure to photography began in her father, Rondal Partridge's darkroom as a child, hanging out and rocking prints trays, waiting for the images to appear on the silver paper in the developing tray. As a teenage assistant she spotted prints for Imogen, taking the bus, tram and then cable car to get to Imogen's San Francisco house from Meg's home in Berkeley.
"I remember once when I was spotting prints in her studio home - Imo was so funny. I'd be working on a print and she'd say, 'Oh, you've spend enough time on that print, it's just going to the Museum of Modern Art.'" - Meg Partridge
In the 1980s, filmmaking became her focus. The first directorial effort, the film Portrait of Imogen, was released in 1988. An Acadamy Award nominated documentary, it was inspired by a series of interviews that Imogen made with her son Rondal late in her life. This lead Meg to make two subsequent films on her photographic family. A Visual Life documenting the extraodinary work of her godmother Dorothea Lange and Outta My light, an exploration of the eight decades of photography by her father Rondal.
Meg's close relationship to Imogen and to Imogen's work, combined with her extensive working knowledge of all aspect of this family archive allowed Meg to easily take on the roll of Director of the Trust, continuing to share Imogen Cunningham's work with others.
