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Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands
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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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- 1918
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- Palladium print
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- American
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- Getty Museum
"My hands had always been admired but I never though much about it," recalled Georgia O'Keeffe when she looked at this photograph some sixty years after it was made. As part of the consuming passion for O'Keeffe that drove Alfred Stieglitz to leave his first wife and child, he conducted a great love affair with her hands through his camera. From the very beginning of their relationship, Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe, eventually produced a cumulative portrait of more than 325 photographs. Here photographed so that only her hands are visible, the dynamism of her gesture evokes the rhythms of music and dance as well as the abstract, biomorphic shapes of O'Keeffe's own drawings and paintings.
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