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Judy Dater
is an American photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known
for her 1974 photograph, Imogen
and Twinka, featuring an
elderly Imogen Cunningham, one of America's first women
photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The
nymph is the model Twinka Thiebaud.
Dater was born in
1941 in Hollywood and grew up in Los Angeles. She studied art there,
before moving to San Francisco to take a photography course with Jack
Welpott, whom she later married. In 1975, they published a joint
work, titled Women and
Other Visions. They were
divorced by the early 1980s.
In 1964, Dater met
Imogen Cunningham, whose life and work had greatly inspired her. In
1979, three years after Cunningham's death, she published Imogen
Cunningham: A Portrait, containing interviews with many of
Cunningham's contemporaries, and photos by both Dater and Cunningham.
This book also contained the photo: Imogen and Twinka. In
1971, her work was exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles festival, in group
exhibition. She received a Guggenheim Award in 1979. Dater also
published two further books of her work: Body and Soul (1988)
and Cycles (1994).
Judy Dater now
lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband Jack B. von Euw.
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