What does Judy Dater really think about her most famous work, Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite?
The video below, “Judy Dater, Imogen and Twinka,” made by Francisco Troy, highlights a key inspiration for the Virgin Landscape exhibition. As a UC Davis student, Troy produced this work in collaboration with Judy Dater in an effort to gain her perspective on her most famous photograph: Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (1974). His motivation was to make a “film about Judy Dater, an accomplished portrait photographer who has worked alongside some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, such as Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams.” (Troy 2013) In the video Dater discusses some of the challenges she faced having Imogen and Twinka become her “signature image,” and the effects that fame has had on her photography moving forward.