Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Medium
Palladium print
Dimensions
Image: 24.1 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 20.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
palladium print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66435
Art Historical Context
In 1918, pioneering photographer Alfred Stiegl captured this intimate palladium print portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, then an emerging artist whose bold modernist paintings would soon captivate the world. Titled simply *Georgia O'Keeffe*, the measures 24.1 × 19.3 cm and exemplifies Stieglitz's of straight photography, a movement he championed to elevate the medium to fine art status. Through his Gallery 291 in New York, Stieglitz introduced European modernism to America, and this photograph marks a pivotal moment in his personal and artistic collaboration with O'Keeffe, whom he met in 1917 and l...
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...