Photo Liaison is a gallery without walls, selling original fine art photography and award winning documentary films. We offer images from Imogen Cunningham and Rondal Partridge. Our inventory includes signed originals, unsigned originals & estate stamped prints.

Dear Friends,

I am very excited to be sending you our October newsletter. We have made a number of changes to the website by adding customer comments and a special requests section. We have also added over 1,000 images of published photos by Imogen Cunningham and Rondal Partridge.

I will be presenting my film, Portrait of Imogen at the Photographer's Fanfaire in Portland, Oregon on Saturday evening, November 4th. The film and my talk will be given at the University of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd, at the Margo Hunt Center Auditorium.

I will be joining many other photographers in offering prints, films and books for sale throughout the weekend. Other speakers include Steve Anchell, Bruce Barnbaum, Ray Bidegain, Martha Casanave, Janis Miglavs, Gerald Robinson, John Wimberley, and Jerry Wolfe. Panel discussions will be on Art and the Law, Pricing and Alternative Markets for your Work, Starting your Photography Print and Book Collection, The Creative Thought Process, and other topics. On Friday and Saturday there will be a $15.00 admission charge, but Sunday will be free.

For more information, check out www.portlandphotoforum.org.

Thanks,

Sunday, August 6, 2006 - 12:00 AM

Pacific Northwest Magazine
Out Of The Attic And Into The Light
Tyrone Beason

IT WAS A STROKE of great fortune for the late photographer Imogen Cunningham and her son, photographer Rondal Partridge, that his daughter inherited their keen sense of observation and talent for visual storytelling.

While Cunningham, who died 30 years ago in San Francisco, and Rondal, who's 88 and still shooting photos at his home in Berkeley, slummed in artsy coexistence with mid-century contemporaries such as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, little "Muggins" was hovering in the background, drinking in her kid's-eye view of the Bay Area's high-caliber arts scene.
Those "rather rowdy and entertaining evenings around the dining-room table" also included appearances by San Francisco sculptor Ruth Asawa and her architect husband, Al Lanier, the writer Felix Green, Lange's husband, Paul Taylor, and the influential architecture critic Allan Temko, who was immortalized in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" as the character Roland Major. The elderly Cunningham would catch a ride across the bay to Berkeley with whomever she could find to drive her.
"It was a wild, pretty wonderful time," filmmaker Meg Partridge says of her childhood. "You always thought as a kid, 'This is reality; this is normal.' "
Partridge had some clue as a child, but certainly recognized at the start of her film career in the 1980s how extraordinary it was to grow up in the orbit of some of the 20th century's most celebrated photographers, from her acid-tongued grandma "Imo" to her famously eccentric dad, Rondal, to her fiercely matriarchal godmother, Lange, "the grand dame."

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