A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

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.