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...person who caused her the greatest unease was photographer Alfred Stieglitz. His relationship began with a passionate interest in O'Keeffe's drawings; it progressed to a passionate interest in O'Keeffe. Twenty-three years separated them. She was on leave from a teaching job in Texas; he was tied to Manhattan. She was single and unknown; he was married and prominent...
...After Stieglitz abandoned his family, he and O'Keeffe took up residence in upstate New York. There, before company, he would rise and lead her up the stairs. "We'd say we were going to have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me." Stieglitz shot some 300 of those pictures, and they constitute a statement far beyond the pleasure principle. From every angle, the long melancholy face radiates an unconventional beauty; the nude torso takes on the authority and bulk of sculpture. Before the onlooker, the model is gradually transformed...
...Stieglitz finally married his mistress in 1924. But several years later, he became infatuated with a younger woman. A series of domestic and professional skirmishes followed; O'Keeffe suffered a breakdown and stopped painting. It was two years before she saw a way out: "If I can keep my courage and leave Stieglitz," she told a friend, "I plan to go West...
...kept her courage and took long sojourns in New Mexico. But she never made a complete break. Shortly before his death at 82 in 1946, Stieglitz attended a Museum of Modern Art show and sent a love letter: "Incredible Georgia -- and how beautiful your pictures are . . . Oh Georgia -- we are a team." And so they remain in the public imagination...
...FIXING A SHADOW: 150 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, National Gallery, Washington. The history of photography as art, assembled from public and private collections around the world. More than 400 original pictures representing 200 photographers. Among them: Louis Daguerre, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Through July...