I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

In the 1940s Cunningham turned to documentary street photography which Imogen Cunningham executed as a side project while supporting herself with her commercial and studio photography. In Dresden Imogen Cunningham concentrated on her studies and didn’t take many photographs. On her way back to Seattle Imogen Cunningham met Alvin Langdon Coburn in London and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Käsebier in New York.