If you’re looking for clues regarding Lucinda Bunnen‘s importance to art photography in Atlanta, you need only turn to the High Museum.
There, they hold the Bunnen Collection, which makes the High one of the nation’s premier collecting institutions for contemporary photography. With a number of Bunnen’s own works there, her influence can be felt both in and behind the work on display.
As co-founder of the Atlanta Photography Gallery and Nexus (now known as the Atlanta Contemporary), Bunnen’s contributions to the art form in Atlanta are far-reaching. Documentary photographer Billy Howard said of her, “If there is a rock behind Atlanta photography, it is Lucinda Bunnen.”
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