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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait
Creator
Alfred StieglitzAmerican Photographer · 1864–1946
All works by this person →Alfred Stieglitz's contribution to the history of photography extends far beyond his photographic work, which he began as a student in Germany in 1883. He influenced generations of photographers, painters, and sculptors both directly and indirectly. In 1905, with Edward Steichen, he founded the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York, which later became known simply
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- negative 1919; print 1920s
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- Gelatin silver print
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- Photographs
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Stieglitz began photographing his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe, shortly after they met in 1917. More than three hundred photographs made over a period of twenty years trace the evolution of the couple's intimate and artistic relationship. O'Keeffe once wrote: "Stieglitz had a very sharp eye for what he wanted to say with the camera. When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me--some of them more than sixty years ago--I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in the world today, she would be quite a different person--but it doesn't matter--Stieglitz photographed her then."
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