{"id":27382,"date":"2023-10-11T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=27382"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:56:12","slug":"cunningham-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/cunningham-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Decades Ago, Avid Photographer Captured Campus Life on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Midcentury Cornell is vividly preserved through the lens of yearbook editor Jim Cunningham \u201971, BS \u201972, MEng \u201975<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographs number in the thousands\u2014a wealth of images, all dating from the late 1960s through the early \u201970s, that depict a Cornell campus both familiar and more than a half-century distant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pull out just one of the many contact sheets\u2014which comprise dozens of consecutive shots taken on rolls of 35mm Kodak Tri-X film\u2014and you\u2019ll see students lounging on the Slope as the Big Red Marching Band parades by, in glorious black-and-white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Cunningham
Cunningham captured action shots of nearly every Big Red sport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Browse through the stacks of prints and negatives, and you\u2019ll glimpse a professor comically contorting his body as he draws a physics diagram on an old-school blackboard and Collegetown streets lined with now-vintage cars and long-gone businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you’ll see sports\u2014lots of them\u2014including the Big Red men\u2019s hockey team in action at Lynah (complete with a proto-Touchdown, front zipper plainly visible). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Three
Three consecutive frames show a particularly agile professor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The images were all captured by Jim Cunningham \u201971, BS \u201972, MEng \u201975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A prolific photographer for the Cornellian<\/em> yearbook, Cunningham also served as its business manager, photo editor, and (in his senior year) co-editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He passed away in 2022 at age 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His family is donating the collection\u2014a vivid window into long-ago campus life on the Hill\u2014to the University Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis photos represent much more than the casual shots of the clocktower or sunsets from the Slope that everyone takes,\u201d says University Archivist Evan Earle \u201902, MS \u201914. <\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Cunningham
Cunningham occasionally shows up on his own rolls of film, photographed by a friend. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPhotographs documenting campus life are always of interest to us. And when we\u2019re able to preserve photos by a student like Jim\u2014who not only was a technically good photographer but also had an eye for documenting what was significant to the University\u2014the historical value is greater, because the content is richer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broad variety of subjects sprang largely from necessity: yearbook photographers cover many facets of campus life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Casual
Casual portraits of friends and classmates abound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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And Cunningham, armed with a Canon 35mm camera and a variety of lenses, was remarkably adept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe taught me a lot about photography,\u201d recalls Mark Halperin \u201971, photo editor of the 1971\u00a0Cornellian<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019d never even worked in a darkroom before, and Jim helped to train me; he was very generous in terms of sharing his knowledge and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cunningham captured Big Red sports (hockey, football, lacrosse, and more); official events like Commencement; and concerts by Simon & Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Kenny Loggins, and dozens of others. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He took candids and portraits of staff working behind the scenes in dining halls and building maintenance, and found inspiration on and around a picturesque campus in all seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some of his images are timeless\u2014like the clocktower peeking out from behind flowering branches\u2014others are very much of their moment, from student protests, sit-ins, teach-ins, and marches to political bumper stickers and provocative graffiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Images
Images of student protests and activism make regular appearances.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"An
An ancestor of the current Touchdown takes to the ice at Lynah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Tennis
Tennis trappings and a two-wheeler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Several
Several frames from a Simon & Garfunkel concert on campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Many
Many images capture camaraderie behind the scenes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Cunningham\u2019s
His peers were accustomed to his ever-present camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Some
Some snaps are pure street photography, like this Collegetown scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"a
Custodians, dining hall workers, and other staff appear in numerous portraits and candids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Have
Have tongue, will travel: a dog strolls outside the Cornell Store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Longtime
Longtime Big Red lacrosse coach Richie Moran on the sidelines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Many
Tightly cropped, natural-light portraits were a Cunningham specialty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Big
Hockey action from a half-century ago\u2014complete with the era\u2019s \u201cJason\u201d-like goalie mask.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Two
With camera in hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Students
Students fill Bailey Hall long before its early-2000s renovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Marked
Marks show chosen images from a Big Red Band performance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Students
Students and families at an outdoor event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Watching
A timeless Chimes concert in McGraw Tower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
Glimpses of \u201960s and \u201970s fashion are plentiful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Long
Long before Photoshop, Cunningham was skilled at making magic in the darkroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Kenny
Kenny Loggins (then with Loggins and Messina) at a Barton Hall concert in 1973.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Students\u2014and
Students\u2014and two dogs\u2014cross the street in front of Willard Straight Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
A bird\u2019s-eye view of the Willard Straight Memorial Room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Glee
Glee Club members in Sage Chapel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"students
A longtime favorite (if not officially sanctioned) winter activity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Even
The front steps of the Straight have long been a popular gathering spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Students
Students have strolled Cornell\u2019s paths for generations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
A pre-Ho Plaza view of WSH and the campus store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Big
Big Red action on the court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Before
Before it was the Tang Welcome Center or Noyes Lodge, it was the Pancake House!<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Signs
Signs of the times: a contact sheet frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Students
Cornellians have always taken the seasons in stride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
A Collegetown street scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"A
A provocative banner at Schoellkopf.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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But his most evocative images may be the many that capture friends and peers\u2014relaxing on lawns, goofing around in dorms, mugging for the camera, strolling through Collegetown, working on the <\/em>yearbook, eating in the dining halls, and mingling with the dogs who then roamed<\/a> quads and classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says friend Ken Kunken \u201972, BS \u201973, MA \u201977: \u201cI don\u2019t think I ever saw Jim without a smile on his face and a camera around his neck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"a
Moviemaking on the Arts Quad, circa 1970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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As an undergrad, Kunken suffered a spinal cord injury while playing football. After he returned to complete his studies, Cunningham documented Kunken\u2019s life on campus\u2014navigating the Hill in a wheelchair\u2014in numerous photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several of them appear in Kunken\u2019s recent memoir, I Dream of Things that Never Were<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJim knew how to blend in with the crowd, to blend in with the event\u2014not in an obtrusive way, but to capture everything,\u201d Kunken recalls. \u201cYou could see he loved what he was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After completing his master\u2019s degree, Cunningham moved back to his native Lincoln, MA, in the Boston suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked as a systems engineer for area firms and helped establish the town\u2019s local cable station, managing both its equipment and programming for many years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His photos represent much more than the casual shots of the clocktower or sunsets from the Slope that everyone takes.<\/p>\nEvan Earle \u201902, MS \u201914<\/strong>, University archivist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He also used his engineering acumen to modernize the weather station on Canada\u2019s tiny Kent Island\u2014one that his father, a meteorologist, had helped establish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And photography remained a lifelong hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cunningham\u2019s older brother, Peter, notes it was their father who \u201chad a Kodachrome habit\u201d and turned both sons on to photography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe each spent endless hours in the darkroom,\u201d recalls Peter, who went on to become a professional photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Cunningham stayed involved with Cornell throughout his life, especially with the systems engineering program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until shortly before his death, he regularly came back to the Hill to advise student project teams, and he dedicated much of his estate to endow an assistant directorship<\/a> in the College of Engineering to oversee them.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Cunningham
In 2022 with a Formula SAE car built by Cornell Racing, a student project team he supported. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJim came away from Cornell with a career in electrical engineering that stood him in excellent stead his whole life,\u201d his brother observes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut it was outside of the classroom, as a photographer, that he learned to be social, and really a generous human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Students\u2014and at least one campus dog\u2014hang out in front of the Straight in the early 1970s; at far right is the iconic tree stump that served as a message board and political canvas. All photos by Cunningham, unless otherwise indicated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published October 11, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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