- Term
Rondal Partridge
- Alternate Term
Partridge, Rondal
- Occupation/Role
photographer
- Nationality/Ethnicity
American
- Geography
California
- Remarks
Rondal Partridge was born in 1817, in San Francisco, California. Son of photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), Partridge began helping his mother, etcher Roi Partridge, in the darkroom at the age of five. At seventeen he became Dorothea Lange's apprentice, driving her up and down the back roads of California as she created her well-known images of migrant laborers. In 1937 and 1938 he worked with Ansel Adams in Yosemite. Partridge lectured at the University of California in Santa Barbara, California State University in Hayward, the Academy of the Arts in San Francisco and at San Francisco Art Institute. In 1965 he made the documentary film, Pave It and Paint It Green, about Yosemite National Park. He lives in Berkeley, California.